It’s good to feel free to talk about personal things, but are your newest workers going too far?

BY KIT EATON @KITEATON

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When it comes to knowing a lot about your employees’ personal lives, do your Gen-Z workers stand out? A recent report suggests you probably do. The newest entrants to the workforce have a chatty side, and you might know more about their health, their anxieties, their love lives and even what they got up to last night than you know about their older coworkers. Managers and supervisors would go so far as to say Gen-Z staff might be oversharing personal information at work.

We know that Gen-Z just “thinks different” about the workplace. They’re shunning 9-to-5 jobs in favor of becoming the “toolbelt generation,” they’re “unbossing,” and they’ve even been criticized for sporting what some see as overly relaxed clothing to the office. Now a

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