Opinion: Why Gen Z hates phone calls


The thought of speaking extemporaneously to another human on a phone can be intimidating – like the fear of public speaking, which runs at over 70% in the general population. — Photo by Onur Binay on Unsplash

"Digital natives." That's what they call Gen Z.

It's a reminder to all of us "analog oldsters" that members of Gen Z were born into a different world than Boomers, Gen X'ers and older Millennials.

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