COMMENT | Are our youth too soft?

COMMENT | “Good food, good home” or “hou sikk, hou juu” is the Cantonese phrase often used in Malaysia to disparage the younger urban generation.

They are seen as a tad too laid-back because their parents had provided them with comfortable surroundings, even into their 20s.

So why strive so hard when things are easy? This group are classified as Gen Z - those born roughly between 1997 and 2012.

In Malaysia, it was reported that over 60 percent of Gen Z workers could not cope with work-related stress, leading to extreme burnout and frequent job changes.

There are also claims that they are "spoilt" and can't handle criticism at work.

Resourceful and idealistic

Yet on the flip side, we see...