The growing rate of AI adoption is easing Gen-Z employees‘ path in the workplace, and their productivity and value to employers.
It’s also giving many of them another unofficial job function that’s helping the cohort transform its vexing workplace reputation: serving as tutors to older colleagues as they incorporate the new technology.
That eagerness to teach veteran coworkers to use new apps is changing perceptions of that younger generation of purportedly aloof and independent-minded workers — and helping them connect better in the office, according to a recent study.
Nearly 60 percent of the 2,016 professionals from the U.S. and U.K. who participated in the study said Gen-Zers take active roles in coaching older colleagues to choose and use AI apps.
That assistance by the younger cohort — usually defined as having been born between 1995 and 2009 — led about half of respondents to say it had begun bridging the generational workplace divides that have formed since Gen-Zers began entering the workforce in large numbers.
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