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The push-and-pull between what Generation Z wants and how companies are responding wages on, as more surveys reveal what Gen Z considers nonnegotiable and how managers are reacting to those demands.
Here’s a snapshot of the numbers making headlines in the HR world.
By the numbers
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The number of days of paid leave Liberty Mutual will give to spouses of military personnel for moves, according to a recent announcement. Military families move every two and a half years on average, data from the Military Family Advisory Network showed.
18%
The share of managers who said they’ve debated quitting over the stress of managing Gen Z employees, according to a report from online education magazine Intelligent.com.
85%
How often AI tools favored White-associated names when ranking job candidates’ resumes, according to new research presented recently at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence/Association for Computing Machinery Conference on AI, Ethics and Society. The tools favored female-associated names 11% of the time.
94%
The percentage of Gen Z candidates who said job stability is a key factor when considering what is “essential” for a workplace, according to a report from Symplicity. Candidates also named work-life balance as a nonnegotiable.
825,000
The number of engineers needed to fill available positions, according to RS, a product and service provider for industrial customers. Close to 1 million engineering roles were posted in the U.S. in August, yet only about 141,000 U.S. students graduate with engineering degrees annually, RS said.
