Why Gen Z Hates Work

After Daniel Hayon, a 23-year-old from Los Angeles, graduated from Claremont McKenna in 2023, he started looking for a job. Interviewing with a fashion start-up, a real estate company, a few tech firms, and marketing agencies, he made it to the final round of 10 different job applications. “I had five or six interviews with each company,” he told me. “I did projects for all of them. It was a 12-week process, and some of the recruiters would ghost me for weeks.”