Gen Z are always connected to multiple devices, constantly shuffling between apps and many just honestly don’t have the attention… Read more Do you remember how hard it used to be to become famous? You’d need an overzealous stage mother, or father… Read more Humanity has achieved some pretty amazing things. We’ve climbed Everest. We’ve […]
We asked our Gen Z audience on Instagram how much they know about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture -… They may have all the gear, and somewhat of an idea, but how passionate is your teen about their apprenticeship… You might conjure the odd fuzzy flashback of it. Vague memories of painting, colouring and […]
Influencers get a bad rap. “Get a real job!” they say. Ok, some “influencers” are questionable. Influencer fraud happens, and it costs… Read more Let’s play ‘first word comes to mind’. Here’s your card: Gen Z. Your answer? Probably “TikTok”, right? But the “TikTok… Read more Businesses that do good don’t go unnoticed. In our Gen Z & […]
Existential crises used to be the right of passage for the middle-aged. But the crisis of hope is emerging increasingly… We hate to break it to you Tinder (and Bumble, and Hinge, and Grindr…), but it looks like you’re next… What does the CEO of one of the world’s most successful software companies have in […]
Expressing emotions takes time and can be difficult. Luckily, for every expression, there’s a GIF. Letting your mate know how… Read more Most Gen Zs will never know the thrilling experience of illegally downloading music that united the generation before them. Feeling… Read more Welcome to the new hustle. Year13’s YouthSense research has found that […]
Remember the saying ‘men are from Mars and women are from Venus’? Well, if we’re talking ‘Gens’, Boomers and Zoomers… Read more We gotta laugh about the awkwardness of video calling. Try romancing or ‘keeping it professional’ through two-second delays, freezes on… Read more Gen Zs want to undo the damage older generations left them. […]
Bullying has evolved as our technology has evolved. Name-calling and wedgies have now given way for the ability to bully… Read more To quote an old-fashioned adage in this day and age, business times are a-changin’. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof… Read more For Gen Zs, TikTok recently gets all the hype but Instagram […]
Still relying on emails for internal communication? Your young employees may feel like they’re working for a dinosaur. While emails… Read more We won’t make any grand assumptions about what men like or what women like. We’ll leave that up to au John… Read more The world’s first digital natives were born with a world of […]
It used to be the other way around. Employee opens Facebook. New friend request. Click. Dun dun dun. It’s… the boss. Said employee feels uncomfortable. Said employee is obliged to ‘accept’ – not without a complete overhaul of existing content, of course. Now and forevermore, said employee must be professionally appropriate at all times on a platform […]
What a year it’s been for the Coronavirus Class of 2021. The cohort entered its final year of schooling barely… Read more In 2015 The Guardian named “basic” as the biggest insult of the year. In 2021? It’s probably “out of touch”. … Read more And they’re battling it out by feeding the content-hungry with stupendously […]
What do you think Gen Zs care about most when choosing a job? A good salary? Nope. Remote, flexible working? Also nope. Perks like free food and gym memberships? Wrong again. All of these are of course great to have, but they’re surface level and in many jobs simply expected. Take a read below to […]
Leonardo Puglisi is no ordinary Gen Z teen. Arguably Australia’s youngest journalist, he founded Channel 6 News Australia while he was in primary school (😳), and since then has interviewed a string of high-profile guests which include not one, but two prime ministers. Now, that’s a pretty solid achievement for an experienced senior journalist, let […]
2021 has been a shocker. But now that we’re finally emerging on the other side in one piece, students can … What’s the secret to engineering a fulfilling future? The answer is surprisingly simple, as Atlassian’s co-founder and CEO Scott Farquhar told us … Dear girls and women, A huge growing sector of the economy needs you. […]
Those of us who are in the business of understanding the next generation tend to converge on the term “youth disengagement”. It’s a negative combination of words and it’s not thrown around lightly. Yet it’s an observation so often repeated that it’s worth explaining in detail. Governments, education providers and businesses are generally missing the […]