Cezary Kaźmierczak, president of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers, in an interview at the PAP Studio expressed his opinion on the young generation and their work. He also added how employers perceive people born between 1995 and 2012.
“These are people who are very unrealistic in their expectations and perception of the world.” The President of the ZPP about Generation Z
According to Kaźmierczak, employers look at young people who have grown up in a fully digitalized society “a bit indulgently.” He commented that Generation Z is supposed to be unrealistic in its expectations because “the world is not like that.”
– I understand them to the extent that this is the first generation born in a wealthy Poland where nothing was lacking. In which parents, remembering their own incredible poverty in the eighties, then getting out of the swamp of communism in the nineties (…), want to compensate their children by buying them everything – added the president of the ZPP. Asked by a journalist what kind of people the “good” times create, Kaźmierczak replied, laughing, that they are definitely lazy.
Can the “Z” work hard? Kaźmierczak has doubts
The journalist of Studio PAP pointed out to Kaźmierczak that it may be good when the young generation expects good pay for their hard work, but this is not in the interest of employers. The president of ZPP commented that he “has doubts about their hard work” and “they will find out that without hard work there is neither hard money nor hard prestige”.
Cezary Kaźmierczak also stated that in Poland we still have an employee's market, but “it is not as radical as it was 2-3 years ago”. The market for high-paid work was supposed to have decreased, which in his opinion was influenced by computerization, computer support, and soon artificial intelligence will also have an impact.