NYTIMES (Emi Nietfeld) - Gen Z Has Lost Its Ambition. Maybe It’s Found Something Better.
For Gen Z college graduates, the way millennials lived out their ambitions no longer makes sense.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Remote workers have higher depression rates, study says | NewsNation
A new study found people who worked remotely often socialized less and were more likely to have higher rates of depression. But those findings contrasted to a different survey that pointed to other struggles for those going into an office. NewsNation’s Kayla Jardine explains.
NYTIMES (Adam Grant, Marissa Shandell and Courtney Elliott) - The Real Reason Bosses Want You Back in the Office Full Time (It’s Not Productivity)
It’s all about them.
NYTIMES (Emma Harrington and Natalia Emanuel) - We Ran the Numbers. Remote Work Is Bad for Us.
Despite its advantages, work-from-home arrangements have significantly deepened Americans’ isolation and distress.
AXIOS (Neil Irwin) - The white-collar jobs contradiction that isn't
Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Note: Core white-collar is the sum of employment in financial activities, information, and professional and business services sectors; Chart: Neil Irwin/Axios The market for many types of white-collar professional workers is bad . The overall U.S. job market is pretty healthy . There is less of a contradiction here than it might seem. The big picture: These are gloomy times for many office workers — their employers shedding payroll, their livelihoods threatened by AI. But the jobs seemingly under the greatest threat right now amount to a small share of overall employment. - Moreover, it isn't historically unusual for major sectors of the economy to shed jobs even as the overall labor market remains…
DAILYCALLER (Faith Miller) - Cali Gov’t Workers Who Never Came Back After COVID Argue Going Into An Office Is Bad For The Environment
'hundreds of thousands of new car trips and thousands of tons of additional air pollution'
AXIOS (Sami Sparber) - Why Gen Z wants more office work
Gen Z workers are chasing more time in the office. Why it matters: The generation with a reputation for preferring fully remote work is actually the least likely to want it — reflecting deeper worries about connection and growth, recent Gallup polling shows. By the numbers: Fewer than a quarter (23%) of remote-capable Gen Z employees say they'd prefer fully remote work, compared with 35% among each older generation, according to Gallup's 2025 survey. - And Gen Z is the most likely to want employees in the office more often. State of play: Many say they've had enough of working from home, alone, possibly in their sweatpants. Loneliness is a major driver of the shift back to the office: 27% of Gen Z workers say they felt lonely "a…