Opinion: Will the lazygirljob TikTok trend lead to good short-term decisions that have significant long-term costs?
This mirrors what we have been hearing from corporate managers recently: Your teams might be able to hit their deliverables remotely, but they aren’t building up the kind of human capital that leads to longer-term growth. Though, of course, the #lazygirl might ask why she should burn valuable hours today to get a better job tomorrow if the job she has right now is good enough.One answer is that your 26-year-old self doesn’t necessarily know what 40-year-old you will like.
But there’s another way I’d gently suggest that aspiring young #lazygirls might be blinded by their shorter time horizons: They haven’t yet seen how much the economy can change. With the brief exception of the early pandemic, when record unemployment was papered over by record government unemployment checks, Gen Z has experienced only a market with more jobs than workers to fill them.
Young workers have also not seen how much job markets can change even when the broader economy is strong. In 2003, when I started in journalism, it was still a great business; newspapers effectively had local monopolies on everything from classified advertising to movie times. Since then, their ad revenue has
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