Gen Z employees are 1.7 times more likely than older generations to avoid leadership roles, not out of lack of interest but to protect their mental health, research shows.
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When Samantha Santos joined Deloitte four years ago as a graduate straight out of university, she had aspirations to one day make partner.
“Ask me four years ago, ‘What do you want to be? What’s success for you?’ and I probably would have said, ‘Oh, I want to make partner, I want to be the boss’,” said Santos, now 27 and a senior consultant in Deloitte’s space sector advisory practice.
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