Gen Z workers are more confident, diverse and tech-savvy but lack experience | Gene Marks

The up-and-coming generation still needs to know that face-to-face interactions, non-tech solutions and older workers are valuable

Millennials are getting old. The people on the upper end of that demographic - defined by Pew Research as those born between 1981 and 1996 - are now pushing 40. They're the dominant part of the workforce. But that dominance is quickly - and naturally - eroding to the next class of workplace warriors. That would be the members of Generation Z, or those born (according to the same Pew report) from 1997 and after.

A 2018 study from Deloitte says that Gen Zers (they define this generation as born in 1995, so there's overlap with Pew above) are already about 24% of the US population, so it's clear that they will become the majority of workers within the next decade. By that time, many of the older class of business owners - mostly my class - will have retired or moved on. The millennials who were once the anti-establishment will be the establishment, the managers, the owners.