Gen Z and Millennials are dealing with “anxiety” and “mental health” issues so severe, that it’s leading them to pay over $400 an hour to learn how to talk on the phone, with over 80% of the Gen Z workforce requesting “mental health” days.
These future business leaders, professors and politicians are so incapable of dealing with everyday tasks that older generations are either profiting from, or feeling the effects of their absence in the workplace.
Take Mary Jane Copps for example, Copps charges $480 an hour for one-on-one coaching to help members of the Gen Z and Millennial generation learn how to overcome what she calls “phone phobia”.
Per Business Insider, Copps, “spotted the rise of “phone phobia” 16 years ago and set up a consultancy called The Phone Lady to help companies improve their staff members’ phone skills.”
The piece goes on to discuss how Gen Z was never taught to speak on the phone, that the majority of modern-day communication is via text or instant messaging. This has led to an entire generation with a phone-fueled “anxiety” that they, or their company, are paying hundreds or even thousands of dollars to dispel.
“Copps charges $480 an hour for one-on-one coaching and $365 for 30-minute webinars as part of a seven-part program. For corporate workshops, the daily rate is $3,500,” Business Insider shares.
Copps will make random calls to her clients throughout the day to train them on how to handle their “phone phobia” and converse over the phone in her one-on-one coaching program.
Alongside these new modern day “anxieties” in Gen Z and Millennials, has come a direct correlation to their participation in the workforce.
For example, a survey conducted back in 2019 exposed how 75% of Gen Z and 50% of Millennials were leaving the workforce due to “mental health reasons”.
Mind Share Partners, surveyed 1,500 people ages 16 and older, regarding how often they experience “mental health related issues” and how this affected their work.
CNBC writes that, “Millennials were three times more likely to experience symptoms of anxiety than baby boomers, and Gen-Zers were four times more likely.”
