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Gen Z are less likely to favor fully remote working compared with millennials and boomers

Per a new Gallup survey, it turns out young workers do want to go back to the office... sometimes.

8/6/25 9:33AM

Since the pandemic, working from home has not only endured as a pretty standard practice for office-based companies, but also remains a requisite for some job seekers accustomed to having at least some days where their commute time is measured in seconds rather than minutes or hours.

Now, several years on from a string of Covid-induced lockdowns, the novelty of doing one’s job in a room of one’s own may have finally worn off... especially for the youngest cohort of employees.

New kids on the (office) block

A recent Gallup survey found that fully remote work was least popular with Gen Z among all age groups surveyed, with only 23% saying they preferred working from home full time — considerably less than the 35% of millennial, Gen X, and baby boomer respondents who favored the wholly WFH model.

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Gallup outlined one factor that could be driving a desire to return to the office: Gen Z is statistically the loneliest generation. The same survey found that 27% of Gen Z reported feeling lonely the day before — almost 3x the share of boomers.

Even so, while a large faction of Gen Z don’t want to be at home permanently, they definitely don’t want to be in the office all the time either, with only 6% of Gen Z preferring to be totally on-site. Indeed, most seem to want options: while hybrid was the preferred work setup across all generations, it was by far the top pick for younger participants (71%).

Another reason for Gen Z’s office push could be that being in a coworking environment might translate to better engagement. An earlier Gallup poll, cited by Business Insider in January, found that only 30% of workers under 35 years old reported feeling engaged at work last year — dipping below the older cohort for the first time in the survey’s history.

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The journalism industry publication’s latest update, which is based on estimates provided by Similarweb for May, found that 37 of the world’s 50 most visited news sites saw their reach shrink. Press Gazette highlighted that American outlets have been hit particularly hard by declining Google traffic compared to European counterparts, owing to the platform’s AI features rolling out earlier in the US.

Even the BBC, having climbed the rankings from last year to top the 2026 chart — reportedly in part thanks to Similarweb’s decision to combine the “.co.uk” and “.com” versions of the URL, given that the sites redirect to each other depending on the user’s location — showed a 1.9% decline from last year.

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Drake whiffs on an expected No. 1 on Spotify

Drake started at the bottom and he’s here, but not quite at the top... of Spotify, at least.

It’s been nearly three weeks since Drake dropped his three surprise albums — “Iceman,” “Habibti,” and “Maid of Honour.” Heading into the month, prediction markets were rating it a near certainty, a 98% chance, that Drake’s sonic onslaught was enough to snag the No. 1 slot on Spotify at least once in June.

But, while he surpassed the late Michael Jackson and took up three slots on the Billboard album chart at once, his newly released songs haven’t quite cracked the popular music-streaming platform’s top charts, and market seem to think the moment has passed.

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Spotify’s “Top Songs - Global” chart currently show that Jackson’s “Billie Jean,” which is more than four decades old, Justin Bieber’s “Beauty and a Beat,” which climbed back to the top of Spotify charts following his Coachella set in the spring, Olivia Rodrigo’s new angsty love song “The Cure,” and BTS’s “Swim” are all ahead of Drake’s “STFU Janice” from his “Iceman” album.

While Spotify previously reported last month that Drake’s “Make Them Cry” was the most streamed album in a single day this year, that was later revealed to be a data error.

Prediction markets currently show traders are betting there’s only a 15% chance Drake will have a No. 1 song on Spotify in June.

Meanwhile, Taylor Swift is in the lead at 98% — a day before the release of her new original song “I Knew It, I Knew You,” which she wrote and performed for Disney and Pixar’s upcoming “Toy Story 5” — followed by Olivia Rodrigo, whose highly anticipated album “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love” comes out next Friday.