Younger workers avoid phone calls and it might cost them opportunities

https://www.businessinsider.com/young-workers-genz-millennials-avoiding-phone-calls-paying-a-price-2026-6

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bigyabai• 1 month ago

A new survey of 2,000 Gen Zers and millennials by the self-improvement app RiseGuide

...so a sample of a subset of workers who are all looking for self-help? The survey might be self-selecting for people with anxiety disorders, methinks.

RugnirViking• 1 month ago

indeed. Looking at their consumption of self-help content may be my personal single biggest predictor of anxiety in people.

nacozarina• 1 month ago

article ignores the reality that the vast majority of calls anyone receives nowadays are scams of one form or another

they aren’t the simple telemarketer scams of yesterday; many are sophisticated attacks with high-consequence outcomes that require considerable effort to navigate, if engaged.

Disengagement is currently an important survival tool.

cgstark• 1 month ago

"Robbers are mad that people started locking their doors"

there's no way to tell if a phone call is a real opportunity at this point, and even when people can tell, the scam calls far exceed the genuine ones

adamsiem• 1 month ago

All the solutions have become problems themselves now. Anyone feel in control of blocking spam calls? What do you do? Asking for an iOS-native guide.

acheron• 1 month ago

Pretty easy.

1) Have a phone number with an area code from a place you haven’t lived since 2004 and nobody legitimate would ever call you from.

2) entirely block that area code.

That takes care of 98% of it.

arealaccount• 1 month ago

Can try this for unknown numbers: https://support.apple.com/en-us/111106, most will just hang up

Ask Reason for Calling means these calls are screened (the caller is asked why they're calling before your phone even rings)

nixosbestos• 1 month ago

"and it might cost them" lmao fuck right off Business Insider.

Younger workers avoid phone calls and it might cost them opportunities

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