Young people have been thinking about the ways workplaces aren’t, well, working for them for some time now—something YPulse has said before. But as more of them clock in for their first “real” jobs, they’re approaching work differently than older gens, even Millennials, ever did. In turn, we’ve seen all the hot takes— “Gen Z is career catfishing,” “they’re taking micro-retirements,” or the endless debate over whether Gen Z even wants to put in work. These recent headlines paint this young gen as out of touch or unwilling to grind—but many rarely ask Gen Z themselves if that’s true.  ...