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Instagram overtakes TikTok in app downloads in race for new users

...Users spent an average of 95 minutes on TikTok in the fourth quarter of last year, compared with 62 minutes on Instagram, 30 minutes on X and 19 minutes on Snapchat....

March 8, 2024

News in-depthUS elections

Will ‘micro-influencers’ sway tight US election races?

...The push comes as many Generation Z voters shun television and newspapers in favour of consuming news from social media content creators....

February 23, 2024

FT Live

Crypto and Digital Assets Summit Asia

Transforming mainstream finance

HTSI

The A-Z of the best kombuchas

.... £32.99 for 12 x 330ml, amazon.co.uk The summery sparkler Leafy Suffolk – rather than LA – is where you’ll find the LA Brewery, a tiny outfit which specialises in making kombuchas laced with vernacular...

January 9, 2024

Jemima Kelly

In defence of the Gen Z challenge to the ‘work ethic’

...But this “Gen Z girl” has a valid point, and those who have been dunking on her are (perhaps deliberately) missing it....

October 29, 2023

Style

Last-minute gifts that don’t look last-minute

...Follow FTWeekend on Instagram and X, and subscribe to our podcast Life and Art wherever you listen...

December 8, 2023

Leo Lewis

Gen-X bankers warn Gen-Z content creators: don’t give up the day job

...Both are sublime examples of what happens when Generation X bankers try to quantify the financial opportunities for Generation Z of the offspring of Generation Y approaching teenagehood as members of Generation...

April 22, 2023

FT Live

Crypto and Digital Assets Summit

Connecting leaders in crypto with mainstream finance

Joy Lo Dico

Don’t annex the X!

...More ominously, the Russians brandish Z on their tanks, and Q, once a questioning fellow, is now claimed by the shadowy group QAnon....

July 28, 2023

Letter

Letter: Dust is yet to settle on the flexible working revolution

...Gen X, the cohort preceding millennials, and those with young families are in fact proving the most resistant to reversing remote working as they have truly been able to adapt....

February 26, 2024

Unhedged podcast20 min listen

Listener Questions

...For a free 30-day trial to the Unhedged newsletter go to: https://www.ft.com/unhedgedoffer Follow Ethan Wu (@ethanywu) and Katie Martin (@katie_martin_fx) on X....

March 19, 2024

Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast18 min listen

Samara Joy, 24-year-old jazz sensation

...Does she want to be considered the artist ‘bringing jazz to Gen Z’? We love hearing from you. Lilah is on Instagram @lilahrap and we’re on X @lifeandartpod. You can email us at lifeandart@ft.com....

February 26, 2024

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson

You can’t pin workforce problems all on Gen Z

...What, then, should Gen X and millennial managers be doing to improve Gen Z’s working lives?...

May 22, 2023

First-time buyers

Millennials and boomers are competing for homes. Guess who’s winning?

...On the eve of the pandemic, millennial home ownership was above 60 per cent — a similar rate to where Gen X was at their age....

October 5, 2023

Gillian Tett

Corporate America is struggling to adapt to Gen Z

...And since most business leaders today are “baby boomers” or members of “Gen X”, (born, that is, between 1946 and 1964, or 1965 and 1980, respectively), many feel baffled by Gen Z, and assume they are identical...

February 9, 2023

Isabel Berwick

Stop moaning about Gen Z grads — they might teach us something

...In the early 2000s, boomers and Generation X workers, who had been expected to be “seen and not heard” as junior employees, moaned about “entitled millennials” brazenly asking for higher pay and promotion...

May 5, 2023

April 11, 2024

US Pharma and Biotech Summit

Strategies for innovation, pricing and access

Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch

Boomers and millennials have each other’s backs

A new study finds older people are sensitive to the challenges faced by young adults

October 6, 2023

Transcript

Transcript: Listener questions

...And whether that’s a good world or a bad — and that applies to the Gen Z, Gen X, baby boomers; everybody is playing in this sartorial free-for-all....

March 19, 2024

Letter

Letter: Declining birth rates are a symptom of a male malaise

...Recent polling is showing that boys and men from Gen Z are now more likely than older baby boomers to believe that feminism has done more harm than good. Young women think the opposite....

February 26, 2024

House & Home

‘The last house in England’: living in Dungeness

...Glass, plaster and plywood meet on an X, Y, Z axis, light playing off the surfaces. The weather sweeps in, the view changing in minutes. Their dog Broughan spends hours looking out of the window....

April 26, 2024

FT Alphaville

FTAV’s further reading

...Elsewhere on Monday… — x.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?...

December 11, 2023

News in-depthMiddle East

Houthis blow open murky world of ship nationality

...“When the Houthis come out and say, ‘We’re going to target ships from X, Y and Z countries’, [it is] difficult to work out which ships fall into these categories,” he added....

March 5, 2024

Work & Careers

Quit-Tok: why young workers are refusing to leave their job quietly

...“I think Gen Z overall is very sceptical and a little bit nihilist,” Judge told the Financial Times....

March 18, 2024

Elizabeth Pears

Dolly vs Beyoncé: long live the battle for ‘Jolene’

...The rapper Lil Nas X also covered “Jolene”, and as a gay man singing to a woman teased a new level of complexity from it....

April 6, 2024

HTSIHow To Give It 2022

The A to Z of stylish giving

...This year, the partnership provides food assistance to those fleeing the Ukraine conflict. balenciaga.com; wfp.org X is for Xuly.BëtLamine Kouyaté’s brand – which was a darling of Paris’s fashion scene...

December 10, 2022

Film

Girls State, the documentary offering ‘a crystal ball on the US’s political future’

...Much has already been written about Gen Z in this historic and fraught year for elections....

March 22, 2024

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