Meet the ‘gen Z whisperers’: the young advisers helping companies understand their employees

Meet the ‘gen Z whisperers’: the young advisers helping companies understand their employees

A new wave of consultants are out to persuade employers their generation doesn’t deserve its bad reputation

If Appius Claudius Gaecus had got his way, there would be no gen Z. The Roman censor banned the letter Z from the Latin alphabet some time around 300BC, apparently because the shape of the mouth when making the sound reminded him of the “teeth of a corpse”.

Forbidding workers from using a letter is exactly the sort of move that would get a modern manager labelled the boss from hell by younger employees. Fortunately, executives can now call on a new wave of advisers to help them understand how to deal with unhappy young people – the gen Z whisperers.

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