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Absolutely and we're seeing a shift in leadership too.  So, when I would go out and speak, and I usually speak to senior level group leaders, the room would be at least half boomer.  And now there's a handful of boomer, a lot of Gen X leaders, more millennial leaders and now we're seeing, at least in the US, about 12% to 13% of the workforce is Gen Z.  That's going to be 30% by 2030 and they're an entirely different animal.  They are going to change work in really fundamental ways that I think are ultimately positive.

— Heather McGowan

What It Means

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Heather McGowan

About Heather McGowan

Heather McGowan is an American writer. She is the author of the novels Schooling and Duchess of Nothing Schooling was named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek, The Detroit Free Press and The Hartford Courant. McGowan has a master in fine arts from Brown University.