ABC chair Ita Buttrose believes the Australian workforce has changed dramatically, saying younger workers lack resilience and 'almost need hugging' for regular reassurance.
ABC chairwoman Ita Buttrose believes the Australian workforce has changed dramatically, saying younger workers lack resilience and "almost need hugging" for regular reassurance.and went on to edit the magazine, made the comments to the Australia-United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday.Credit:did not attend but sources who dialled in relayed some of her comments.
"What does change is the expectations of staff, that's where the change occurs," Buttrose said. "The younger workers like more transparency." "But it seems to me that today's younger workers, they need much more reassurance and they need to be thanked, which is something many companies don't do. "You have to understand that they seem to lack the resilience that I remember from my younger days," Buttrose, now 78, said."Whether that's because of bad parenting, I don't know, and I don't want to go down that path and offend young parents but I am an older parent, and we older parents have very set views about resilience and, you know, I think it's something we need to foster in everybody from a very young age.
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