Why Gen Z Is Rewriting the Rules of Workplace Mentorship — And What Forward-Thinking Companies Are Doing About It
A fundamental tension is emerging inside corporate learning and development departments across the United States: the mentorship models that worked for previous generations are failing to engage the workforce that is rapidly becoming its largest cohort. Gen Z professionals are not rejecting mentorship itself — they are rejecting a specific, hierarchical version of it in favor of something that looks far more like what Indian philosophy has long called the mitra relationship.
