As a young boss, do you find it difficult to understand why your older employee defends hierarchies and the half-yearly work appraisal – or does it provoke you, as an older employee, that your young colleague comes and goes? Then you have most likely fallen into the generation gap!

Never before have we had so many generations working together in the workplace, and never before have the differences between the generations been as significant as today. The new generations have grown up in a digital age, with constant evaluations and change as a basic condition, and they have entered the labor market with a fundamentally different mindset in relation to: task solving, working hours, management, hierarchies, work-life balance and virtually all other indicators, which together make up what we call the culture of a workplace. This can give rise to culture clashes and conflict – not the least now, when there are more generations Y and Z in the leadership.

“Okay boomer – GenYZ is your new boss” is primarily about seeing generational conflicts as diversity, which, according to the author, has a colossal inherent strength when dealt with. The book provides, based on recognized generational research, insight into how generational differences typically materializes in the workplace. At the same time, it offers a number of concrete and operational suggestions on how to create a framework as a manager that results in higher employee well-being and better results.