Gen Z has been called many things, but their latest nickname might surprise you. May we introduce you to Generation Sober. When we asked Australian teenagers aged 15 to 19 about their drinking habits for our Gen Z Wellbeing Check report, 44% told us they never drink, 29% said they only do occasionally, 7% said […]
Did you know that this year there are 6 million Gen Zs in Australia? That’s a whooooooole lotta investment potential if Stockhead is right about Gen Z being the fastest-growing investor base in Australia. Naturally, we got mighty curious about the investment mindset of Gen Zs and got to work, surveying hundreds of young Australians […]
Forget the stereotypes of rich hippies, organic products are booming in popularity. At least with young people. Initially a niche market embraced by the ultra-health conscious, Millennials and Gen Z have well and truly made organic mainstream. Almost half of the Gen Zs we surveyed for our Gen Z & Corporate Activism report said whether a product […]
Best. Manager. Ever! No, you don’t need ping pong tables or craft beer-on-tap. Not even bring-your-dog-to-work days. While that might’ve worked for millennials, the latest generation in the workforce thinks differently. Gen Zs are our first true digital natives. More digitally connected, more socially aware, more progressively-minded. To be a legend of a boss for […]
The results are in, and it looks like Gen Zs might be the catalyst to a meat-free, plant-based future. A whopping 87% of Gen Zs say they could be convinced to switch to meat-free protein alternatives. But there’s a plot twist: Gen Zs actually think being vegan is cringey af. In fact, they’re not alone. […]
Working part-time is almost like a rite of passage for young Australians. It can be a great way to learn soft skills and gain valuable professional work experience. And the friends you make along the way? They can make it a helluva lot of fun. But heavy workloads, disability, illness or injury, location isolation, long […]
Wacky transitions, nonsensical dialogues, distorted audio. On the level of 1 to ‘making sense of people who believe Earth is flat’, how puzzled are you by Gen Z humour? At least science confirms we’re living on a spherical celestial body. But until there are peer-reviewed studies on the serious subject matter of what brings Gen […]
Youth are an important element of any business model. And since the workplace is rapidly changing, becoming an increasingly flexible and digitally disrupted sphere, the youth are already educating their elders about how things are to be done. Young people are getting so far ahead when it comes to digital communication that we really need to […]
So what does it mean to be 20 in 2020? Born at the very end or the very beginning of a millennium, they escaped all the paranoia surrounding the Y2K bug. Cathy Freeman and the roar of the crowd as she won the 400m sprint at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games was just incomprehensible background […]
Open up Instagram, TikTok or Twitter and you’ll be hard-pressed not to come across a meme within a few scrolls of your thumb (pun intended). But if you thought these digital morsels of Gen Z humour were just for shits and giggles, you’re actually mistaken. In fact, meme humour is a coping mechanism for Gen […]
Universities, it’s time for a shake-up. Year13’s YouthSense research has found that 87% of Gen Z students want sustainability incorporated into university course content, showing just how pervasive a mindset it is with young people. Due to their worries surrounding climate change and plastic pollution, young people want to live as sustainably as possible and […]
Some things back in the day just weren’t really spoken about. Often they just weren’t even really known about or understood. Case in point – mental health. Ask anyone aged over 30 and there’s a good chance this is something they rarely thought or spoke about when they were teenagers. That’s why there’s been a […]
Right now is the best time there’s ever been for women’s sport. We’re flooded with headlines telling us about record attendances across A-League Women, WBBL, AFLW and NRLW matches across Australia. But while this newfound popularity is encouraging there is still quite a long way to go when it comes to improving grassroots participation in […]
Two Australian radio shock jocks ruled the Sydney airwaves in the late 1990s. John Laws and Alan Jones had hundreds of thousands of listeners tuning in to their daily 2UE talkback shows’ as they thundered into the microphone about the issues of the hour. With their influence they were famous for going after big business […]