How Gen Z’s mental health concerns are turning the workplace inside out

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To be clear, it is a step forward that people with mental health challenges are finding support at work. At the same time, negative side effects caused by excess inward focus also need attention.

Clay Routledge, director of the Human Flourishing Lab at the Archbridge Institute, says that today’s younger workers may have it backwards. Significance, he says, comes from focusing outside of oneself. If work is an inherently social activity, then encouraging younger workers to adopt a more outer-directed perspective on work and life may be a key step toward strengthening the work-based social connections that help support mental health and happiness.

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