Corporate Employers Now Forced To Play Subway Surfer Videos To Keep Gen-Z Staff Focused In Meetings

VICKI DERWENT | Lifestyle | CONTACT

Corporate offices are struggling to keep meetings engaging for young employees who are used to having three screens facing them at all times. 

Local corporate manager, June Carraben has noticed the decline in engagement from her Gen Z employees. 

“They’re focused for the first five minutes and then quickly their eyes glaze over and they get all fidgety with their hands” June told the Advocate.

“We tried presenting information on a brightly coloured Canva presentation, I even included memes I made myself but that wasn’t strong enough to get them to lock in.” 

June discovered a solution while her daughter was showing her a pimple popping video from TikTok. 

“So I think she was showing me a video of a woman popping this cyst on her chin, but I couldn’t be sure because the phone screen was split in three. There was the pimple popping, then a video of someone cutting slime and then a video of someone playing Subway Surfer.” 

“No wonder they’re all anxious, I had to look out a window for 10 minutes after to clear my head.” 

With the help of her daughter, June set up an extra screen in the meeting room which played a Subway Surfer video on loop for the entirety of her meeting. 

“It’s done wonders for the team. They’re nodding along, asking questions, they've even stopped vaping under their shirts" 

June has also noted a 50% decrease in sporadic work-from-home days amongst the staff.

"They are really engaged" she says.

“They don’t look at me while I’m talking, they look at the little man jumping over those trains, but it’s an improvement and I’ll take that.”