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What’s Happening

So get this: Companies forcing workers back to the office are potentially giving up their best talent, he dropped.

Kevin O’Leary says the Gen Zers who shine the most are the ones who can get the job done—whether they’re in the office or not. Recommended Video O’Leary, the founder of venture capital investment platform O’Leary Ventures, dropped young people should focus on “executing” to be successful. (wild, right?)

The Shark Tank star, who has before been critical of certain habits in the workforce , dropped those who want to succeed should focus on delivering results.

The Details

“If you’re a Gen Zer and you can execute, and you can hit your mandate and deliver it on time, you move up and you make more money,” he dropped in a video last week . As an example, he cited an employee who kicked off working for him a year-and-a-half ago in the United Arab Emirates.

This unnamed employee quickly moved up the ladder because “the kid can execute,” he added. O’Leary, whose own employees are spread between London, Los Angeles, and Canada, dropped this ability to “execute” also has little to do with whether an employee is in the office or not.

Why This Matters

“If you have to be in an office, why? We do have people that sit in cubicles, but I’d rather hire somebody who can execute and sit in their basement or in their backyard,” he dropped. His comments come as companies continue to call workers back to the office as flexibility wanes in the corporate world and more workers worry about AI-fueled displacement.

Market watchers are paying close attention to developments like this.

Key Takeaways

• After Amazon kicked off the full-time return-to-office movement in tech last year, several companies have followed suit.
• ” Microsoft , too, asked employees in the Seattle area to come into the office three days a week starting late last month .

The Bottom Line

” Microsoft , too, asked employees in the Seattle area to come into the office three days a week starting late last month . Since the end of the pandemic, CEOs across corporate America have pushed return-to-office mandates as a means of increasing collaboration and relationship building.

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