Gen Z Cops ‘Won’t Work Weekends or Overtime’ – By Alice Gibbs (Newsweek) / May 25, 2024
Gen Z police recruits in Scotland don’t want to work overtime or on weekends, expecting a better work-life balance than generations before them.
Chief Superintendent Rob Hay, the president of the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents (ASPS) told fellow officers that they should be prepared to adapt to appeal to Gen Z employees —those born in 1997 or later.
Speaking at a recent ASPS conference, Hay said: “Young people don’t want to come in and work overtime; they want their weekends off. They aren’t like Gen X that came in before them.”
“It is not that Gen Z recruits are less inclined to work the weekends they have been rostered, but rather they are less willing to volunteer for additional overtime at the weekend and even less pleased when weekend or days off are canceled, as is often the case in policing,” Hay told Newsweek.
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