Employers Question Whether Generation Z Is Prepared for the Modern Workplace

Bosses say Gen Zers aren't ready for work. Whose fault is that?

Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI My first internship gave me a simple task: Email a press release to a large list of reporters. I followed the meticulous formatting instructions from a binder, and hit send. Minutes later, a supervisor let me know that I had botched this most basic responsibility. I needed to BCC the list of recipients, something I had neglected to do because in my time in a college classroom, I hadn't learned what BCC meant. It was the kind of rookie mistake I couldn't anticipate a...