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The headline — “Gen Z workers think showing up 10 minutes late to work is as good as being on time” — first caught my attention two years ago.

Since then, many articles have explored and even normalized this sentiment. Predictably, these conversations often spiral into debates about work culture, generational values, capitalism, power, and respect.

Exploring commentary and Reddit threads, I found evidence of these discussions dating to 2019, well before the pandemic reshaped our relationship to work and time.

What I found were several surface interpretations of timeliness and lateness:

— Some argue that strict adherence to time DOWNLOAD PDF