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\n\n\n\nRich Parker’s father worked for the same company for 35 years. That was the expectation. Stability was the social contract, and most people honoured it without question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One generation later, Rich himself worked across four companies. The generation after him entered the workforce during a financial crisis and hit their career peak during a pandemic. And Gen Z? They’re optimising for lifestyle and flexibility<\/strong> from the start \u2014 not as a rebellion, but as a rational response to the world they inherited.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNow companies are waking up to a talent market that looks nothing like the one they built their hiring processes around<\/strong>. For Rich Parker, CEO of Plannernet, the shift is real, it’s not reversing, and the companies that treat it like a problem to manage rather than a model to embrace are already falling behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n