Exclusive | Working hard or hardly working? Debate on the balance of working life and life is lit to Tiktok

“Now all I see are people who come out of their offices at 17:00, as if it were a fire drill and ask why they feel so breached in their career,” Carter published last week.

“Balance is important, but balance without ambition. This is just the coast,” Carter continued. “Don’t create something great just doing the minimum.”

The reaction was quick and furious. Critics hit the postman, suggesting that he was promoting unpaid work and ignoring the burning.

“Keeping five in the afternoon working for a company in which I do not have equity does not sound like the way to compliance,” a tiktoker responded.

“How can I be active if I have to be hooked on my desk after 17:00?” Another wrote.

Carter quickly suppressed the publication, and then made his criticism of his Instagram history and said he had been canceled.

“What followed was not the dialogue. It was a pile,” Carter wrote. “It does not leave the thing in which we all say in what we believe … growth.”

He didn’t stop there.

“I am a millennial. I grew up in a culture where” the hard work that pays “was not only a phrase … It was a promise,” Carter said in a May 30 Substack essay that defended his position. “Two truths can coexist … we can honor the ambition and protect our peace.”

But for many online, that didn’t cut it.

Haters pointed out Glassdoor’s negative reviews of seven Active and 2023 Carter’s decision to restructure their social media team, which some interpreted as layoffs.

“She only had a bad dam and is out of contact,” a Reddit user wrote. “This is consequence, not cancellation.”

The controversy has evolved since then towards a greater debate on what the ambition in current workforce should be and if Z is lazy, or simply redefining success according to its own terms.

Younger workers no longer buy the fading mentality driven by older generations, said Gabrielle Judge, an influencer known as the “Anti Work Girlboss.”

“The Z gene is not ambigible,” the judge told The Post. “We have just sacrificed our mental health for companies that reward the burn with the pizza parties.

“Starting -five o’clock is not laziness. It’s a limit.”

JT O’Donnell, founder of Work IT Daily, said he understood both parties. Instead of paying hours, younger workers are more focused on taking advantage of skills and knowledge in a changing economy.

“Working long hours is less productive,” said Celeste Headlee, author of “Do noting: How to get rid of overload, overale and supply.”

“I am not irritated that Lindsey used the word” Costa “, I have a great empathy for it. It is still affected by the illusion that the work is what gives its purpose to life and its value.”

Studies show that Gen Z is noticeably less focused on the work that young people were just five years ago, said the psychologist Jean Twenge, author of “generations: the real differences between Z gene, millennials, gene X, boomers and silents, and what they mean for the future of America.”

“It is a rejection of the idea that work is the most important of life,” Twenge said.