It's become a common refrain among employers that the current generation of young people has vastly different expectations of the world of work – acknowledged for their ethical standpoint on the one hand but often accused of entitlement on the other. Like all sweeping generalisations we should take it with a pinch of salt, but there's no doubt that the Covid experience hit many young people hard and led to a fundamental reappraisal of what's important.
We also need to recognise that just being young in the 2020s is harder work than it was a generation ago. Young people have to make more conscious choices about who they are and what they stand for in a world that is more challenging and more polarised than it has been for decades, while knowing that their digital imprint is visible to the world and may follow them round for ever.
