This is Alternatively Speaking, the Grant Thornton podcast where we explore the healthy tensions that shape modern business.

In this episode, host and broadcast journalist Samantha Simmonds brings together three people with different career experiences – Gen Z Co-founder Ben Jeffries, millennial audit partner Ant Thomas, and Gen Z audit associate Kirsty Miller – to ask: is friction between generations slowing organisations down, or pushing them forward? 

They explore the clash between expectations of hybrid working, where communication styles can spark conflict, how AI is reshaping capability and confidence, and what leaders can do to keep teams aligned when four generations are working to four different definitions of “productive”.