{"id":67193,"date":"2024-01-19T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=67193"},"modified":"2024-02-01T15:35:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T20:35:15","slug":"fast-company-ann-woo-on-aligning-your-companys-future-of-work-with-gen-zs-preferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/fast-company-ann-woo-on-aligning-your-companys-future-of-work-with-gen-zs-preferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Company: Ann Woo on Aligning Your Company&#8217;s Future of Work with Gen Z\u2019s Preferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What direction should forward-thinking companies take in preparing for a future dominated by Gen Z, both as businesses and employers? In her latest <a href=\"https:\/\/board.fastcompany.com\/profile\/Ann-Woo-Head-Corporate-Citizenship-Samsung-Electronics-America-Samsung\/01acaf2a-07c0-4b6a-a74a-2c285dac6c8e\">Fast Company<\/a> opinion article, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/tag\/ann-woo\/\">Samsung Electronics America\u2019s Head of Corporate Citizenship Ann Woo<\/a> shares insights gleaned from leading Samsung\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/solvefortomorrow\/\">Solve for Tomorrow<\/a> STEM competition about Gen Z and their career aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, business leaders need to ask the right questions, and then \u201clisten, listen,\u00a0listen!\u201d For Ann, that means listening intently \u2013 listening to learn, not merely to hear what\u2019s said. Business leaders should be listening to the community at large, listening to Gen Z as they are creating the future, and listening to the data and what it can tell us about the way forward.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ann, companies need to embrace Gen Z\u2019s entrepreneurial spirit in combination with their focus on creating positive change. Also, feed Gen Z\u2019s appetite for professional development, address their concerns about AI, and provide flexibility to improve work-life balance, among other considerations.<\/p>\n<p>Read Ann\u2019s full Fast Company byline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/91010419\/as-we-enter-2024-what-lies-ahead-for-gen-z-careers\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedded product-module\">\n\t\t<a id=\"product-module-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/solvefortomorrow\/\" title=\"Solve for Tomorrow\" class=\"snr-article_product-image\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/06102359\/solve-for-tomorrownewsroom-product-module-1.png\" alt=\"Solve for Tomorrow\">\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p><em>To learn more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/solve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samsung Solve for Tomorrow<\/a> STEM competition, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/solve\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.samsung.com\/solve<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What direction should forward-thinking companies take in preparing for a future dominated by Gen Z, both as businesses and employers? In her latest Fast Company opinion article, Samsung Electronics America\u2019s Head of Corporate Citizenship Ann Woo shares insights gleaned from leading Samsung\u2019s Solve for Tomorrow STEM competition about Gen Z and their career aspirations. Importantly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":67646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29719,17563],"tags":[761,91,34,16348,30328,29699,16225,832,37,730,35,26197],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-67193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate","category-corporate-education","tag-ann-woo","tag-citizenship","tag-education","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-future-of-work","tag-gen-z","tag-innovation","tag-public-affairs","tag-social-responsibility","tag-solve-for-tomorrow-sft","tag-stem","tag-stem-education"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":false},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/01153505\/Ann-Woo-SFT-432x286-1-200x200.jpg","fimg_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/01153505\/Ann-Woo-SFT-432x286-1.jpg","primary_category":{"term_id":29719,"name":"Corporate","slug":"corporate","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":29719,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1026,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/category\/corporate\/","term_path":"corporate"},"badge":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67193"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=67193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}