‘Lazy Girl Job’: How Gen-Z is changing the way we perceive jobs today

Updated On: 02 February, 2024 10:30 AM IST | Mumbai | Nascimento Pinto

With Gen-Z habits ruling everything around us, ‘Lazy Girl Job’ is another trend that has been picking up over the last few months as they have started entering the workforce. Gen-Z working professionals and life coach dive into the trend and how office spaces need to adapt to the new generation than shun them

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The term ‘Lazy Girl Job’ was coined by Gabrielle Judge in 2023 among Gen-Z to counter the ‘hustle culture’ popularised by previous generations. Image for representational purposes only. Photo Courtesy: Istock

Mahshamail Khan quit her 9-5 teaching job, where the Mumbaikar says she was being expected to work like a machine. "It was all about `Don’t speak, don’t move and complete the task given to you whether it makes sense or not`. There is nothing new to learn in hustle culture," says the 24-year-old. Khan took the first opportunity she got and quit the job to not only become a city-based freelance copywriter but also become a UI/UX and graphic designer. “Companies today treat you like Artificial Intelligence (AI). All that matters to hustlers of the ‘hustle culture’ is that they are given the task and do it to their full potential,” she adds.

Even as the ‘hustle culture’ has been propagated by the older generation and seeped down to the millennial generation, the post-pandemic world has brought forward a new idea in work culture to the fore in the last one year. Simply called ‘Lazy Girl Job’, the term was coined by Gabrielle Judge, popularly known as @antiworkgirlboss on Instagram in 2023 and has ever since been blowing up on the Internet. Like any other trend, the definition has existed much before the coinage of the term, but it has now brought into perspective a new kind of work culture that is simmering at workplaces or that Gen-Z feel is the need of the hour now more than ever and Khan is only one of them.

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