Conscious unbossing isn’t just a Gen Z thing. I’m a CMO who did it | Fortune0

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• August 16, 2026

“Conscious unbossing” got its name a couple of years ago, when a Robert Walters survey found most young professionals didn’t want to become middle managers. Whether Gen Z actually acts on it is a fair question. Plenty of them still take the manager job, and I get it, the raise for managing is 11% versus