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A Gallup survey of more than 19,000 US workers found Gen Z employees who work fully remote report feeling lonely on a given day nearly three times as often as baby boomers, despite being the generation assumed to be most comfortable working through a screen
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Only 23 per cent of remote-capable Gen Z employees said they would choose to work exclusively from home, against 35 per cent for every older generation surveyed.
Seventy-one per cent of Gen Z said they preferred a hybrid arrangement instead.
On paper, Gen Z is the generation least attached to full remote work and least willing to fight to keep it.
A pattern that shows up in the bigger dataset tooGallup’s broader workplace research points the same direction, even outside the specific Gen Z comparison.
The assumption that growing up online prepares someone for working alone in a room does not hold up against the survey Gallup actually ran.