[Bancakes]

Why do you project your stereotypes and expectations over your employees? They're adults and if they wanted partners/kids/office work, they would go and get them. Maybe you're the one who has to adapt to the new world instead of 'finding issues' and even assuming you're the one to 'fix' your employees.

[tarboreus]

Except that empirically, on average, they're miserable, by self-report. It's the most depressed generation.

https://www.mhanational.org/number-people-reporting-anxiety-... https://www.aecf.org/blog/generation-z-and-mental-health

Not great reports but I've read actual papers on this in the past.

[Bancakes]

I see those are American self-reports. From experience, here around Eastern Europe, I am surrounded by people content with being single. If anything, life doesn't get cheaper.

[tsol]

So they say, but single people are statistically more unhappy to the degree that they don't live as long as married people. Saying this as a single person

[Bancakes]

Best response I can think of is 'Simpson's paradox'

[nullwarp]

Yeah I don't really understand their comment either - do you need a partner and kids to not be lonely? Maybe some people just enjoy the freedom of independence.

Not everyone has to subscribe to the "get married and have kids" philosophy of life.