A look at Gen Z as it graduates into chaos.
What CEOs are saying
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Challenges
The pandemic has fragmented
Gen Z into four cohorts
Reshma Kewalramani
Vertex
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Carlos Brito
Blue Apron
Linda Kozlowski
Cboe
Edward Tilly
Darktrace
Poppy Gustafsson
Duke Energy
Lynn Good
Evercore
Ralph Scholsstein
Land O'Lakes
Beth Ford
Momofuku
Marguerite Mariscal
PayPal
Daniel Schulman
Sanofi
Paul Hudson
Shopify
Tobias Lütke
Tapestry
Jide Zeitlin
TaskRabbit
Stacy Brown-Philpot
Uber
Dara Khosrowshahi
ViacomCBS
Robert Bakish
Vice Media
Nancy Dubuc
Walmart
Doug McMillon
Weber Shandwick
Gail Heimann
Zoom
Eric Yuan
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How we'll connect.
Tech
Class of 2020
How we'll transact.
Finance
How we'll shop and spend.
Retail
How we'll get around.
Transportation
How we'll entertain ourselves.
Media
How we'll engage with brands.
Advertising
The oldest members of Gen Z are watching the coronavirus pandemic foil their plans.
High-school seniors' dreams of the traditional college experience have been erased as they're left questioning whether they'll even enroll this year at all. Meanwhile, college seniors are walking into a paralyzed economy racked with a 14.7% unemployment rate.
Are they at risk of becoming the next “lost generation”?
Business Insider spoke with a dozen 2020 graduates and half as many researchers and education experts on how Gen Z is adapting to this year’s brutal transformation of education and the economy, and how it could reshape the still youthful generation.
How we'll eat.
Food
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Editing: Drake Baer and Nick Lichtenberg
Reporting: Hillary Hoffower and Juliana Kaplan
Design: Skye Gould and Samantha Lee
Recession graduates typically see stagnated wages for up to 15 years
Economy
Tips for Gen Z on staying financially secure
Money
Gen Z is questioning its futures, but that’s normal for a 20-something
Psychology
Mental and financial toll
The pandemic has upended athletic recruiting
Athletics
The SAT is cancelled, and the class of 2021 will compete with the class of 2020 for college seats
The Class of 2021
Younger students are facing learning loss and socioeconomic divide, but schooling might improve long-term
Education
College in fall 2020 will look like Zoom classes and deserted sports stadiums
Campus Life
A high-school senior wrote about pandemics months before coronavirus
College Essay
Education and school
A robotics student and a golfer unite to create homemade PPE
Extracurriculars
YouTubers become their own directors in quarantine
Influencers
The first Gen Z winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race talks drag going online
Drag
The pandemic could get Gen Z voters to the polls
Politics
March For Our Lives founders on the threats guns pose in a pandemic
Gun Violence
Behavior and politics
The class of 2020 on what it's like to face down crumbling colleges, a frozen job market, and COVID-19 disrupting your entry into adulthood
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