Giovani lavoratori chiacchieroni che disturbano i colleghi più anziani “non molestie”, Regole del Tribunale
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/aug/19/young-chatty-workers-disturbing-older-ones-not-age-harassment-tribunal-rules
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Based on the article this seems a very obvious outcome.
The Guardian has gone fucking (clickbait) downhill, besides I thought (I can say this trite silliness because I’m not writing for a well-regarded UK NEWSpaper) it was the older employees that sometimes rabbit on and on.
I’m surprised this got as far as it did – yes her work probably should tried harder to make it a positive work environment, but it’s incredibly clear there was no ageism to this.
As an older person, we are just as chatty at work, if not worse tbh.
The irony of her taking this nonsense to a tribunal and saying it was difficult to watch “extreme time wasting” 😅
I remember some years back, the CEO at the company I worked at had to tell one of the young trainees that “You know when I said my door was always open of any of you had anything you wanted to talk about? I didn’t mean literally ALWAYS open…”.
What a weird case. Ive known workers of all ages to chat incessantly.
As for low productivity and time wasting this is up to the business to manage if actually true. Obviously the business doesnt see this the same way.
Always found Gen Z in tech to be refreshingly quiet at work. It’s the older ones like my Gen X cohort and boomers who don’t ever stop yapping ‘yeah.. thing about arsenal is they always try to walk it in’ etc
I’m 29 and I’m always chatty at work, although that might be because of my autism? However 90% of the customers that I encounter don’t seem to mind and I’ve never had a co-worker complain about me talking too much.
Seems to me that what the others do isn’t so much her business but if she’s forced to work in a loud environment where she can’t concentrate this could mean her employer was not providing her with a suitable working environment?
Were just complaining about everything these days huh?
I really don’t think this has anything to do with age demographic of the workers at all. I’m a millennial and I am very quiet at work. I go, clock in, do my spreadsheets, make some calls, log out. I talk to colleagues if I must, and sometimes I’ll interact when we do quizzes in our groupchat etc, but when it comes to casual conversation and small talk I’m not big into it, so I don’t initiate it.
I have colleagues younger than me, the same age as me, and a lot older than me, who chat away to one another and never shut up (not derogatory. I’m a yapper and a half with literally everyone except my colleagues lol)
I think it’s a mixture of different factors (like how social the work environment is presented, generally just how social the employees themselves are, are any of the chattiest colleagues actually friends outside of work and therefore chat a lot because they already talk to each other a lot anyway, how close does everyone sit to one another, what the actual job itself is, the list is non exhaustive, but I do think there are a lot of different factors when it comes to how “chatty” people can be at work, and age would be far far down, if even on at all, that list of factors imo)