Gen Z's anxiety is spilling into the workplace. Here's how to effectively manage the 'anxious generation'

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For one nonprofit executive director, it was a 2022 New York City subway shooting that highlighted the stark differences between how he, a 55-year-old, and his Gen Z staffers show up to work.

“We had an employee who lived a mile from where it happened and was traumatized by it—and further upset about the fact that we didn’t create space in our weekly staff meeting to address that trauma,” the leader, who asked not to be identified because he continues to manage Gen Zers, tells Fortune.