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As the top boss of their companies, CEOs often rely on layers of management to do their employee bidding\u2014but Match Group leader Spencer Rascoff has broken down the barriers of command. The CEO said the best-kept secret in creating a great company is to encourage transparency, so he asked all his employees to start DMing him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAny employee can message me with feedback, ideas, questions, or concerns,\u201d Rascoff wrote in a recent LinkedIn post. \u201cNo hierarchy. No filters. Just real input.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rascoff reads every message: Ideas from confidential messages get shared broadly with staff, and when an employee includes their name, he\u2019ll follow up with them directly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And the CEO isn\u2019t all talk\u2014he\u2019s actually taking action when employees raise concerns or give valuable feedback. One DM from a young staffer even changed how he runs the business.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA Gen Z employee asked if we could use our Gen Z ERG as a real sounding board,\u201d Rascoff continued. \u201cI now meet with that group monthly, and their unfiltered perspective has directly influenced how I think about our products, culture, and user experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
The confidential employee hotline is one of the first ideas that Rascoff put into motion after becoming Match Group\u2019s CEO in 2025, overseeing iconic online dating platforms like Hinge, Tinder, and Match.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stepping into the role, he recognized that the company needed a reset, and set off to rebuild trust and focus among his staffers. Soon enough, ideas progressed faster, team collaboration improved, and employees were striving for even greater success, Rascoff said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now, Rascoff is leveraging wisdom from Gen Z staffers to innovate its products and bring in new users.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rascoff\u2019s admiration of Gen Z\u2019s talent is a breath of fresh air for young staffers more often described as \u201cannoying\u201d or lazy in the workplace. Luckily, he\u2019s not the only business leader who is backing up early-career employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nestl\u00e9 CEO Philipp Navratil may drink eight cups of coffee a day, but Gen Z staffers are really the ones who keep him on his toes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The leader of the $259 billion Swiss food giant said young employees taught him the importance of \u201clearning constantly,\u201d otherwise he might as well head for the door. \u201cWhen you stop learning, then it is the moment to move on to another job,\u201d Navratil recently told the New York Times.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n And chief human resources officer at $62 billion giant Colgate-Palmolive Sally Massey credits Gen Z as being ambitious and incredibly tech-savvy. She said the digital natives possess critical skills that the consumer products company is now seeking\u2014and just like Rascoff, she recognizes the value of breaking down feedback hierarchies.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThey bring with them new ideas, new perspectives, curiosity \u2026 They\u2019re pushing us to get better and to do things differently\u2014I think it\u2019s great,\u201d Massey told Fortune<\/em> earlier this year. \u201cWe\u2019re not siloed by generation or tenure; the senior leaders at Colgate want to hear ideas and thoughts from the more junior employees.\u201d<\/p>\n Gen Z workers may lack experience when stacked up against their Gen X and baby boomer colleagues, but Incode Technologies CEO Ricardo Amper says that\u2019s what makes them such great talent: The budding professionals are still oblivious to industry intricacies, allowing them to be \u201cunbiased\u201d in their work and laser-focused at getting the job done right.<\/p>\n \u201cMy belief [is] that coming out with a fresh mind, first principles, is important. That\u2019s why young people are particularly helpful in tech, because they\u2019re less biased,\u201d Amper recently told <\/em>Fortune<\/em>. \u201cI think too much knowledge is actually bad in tech: You\u2019re biased.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #CEO #tech #company #Hinge #Tinder #set #employee #hotline #staff #anytime #hierarchy #filters #real #input<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the top boss of their compa… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[14727,529,624,8174,2438,596,456,2293,1083,2012,14729,300,14728,1586,8540,14730,7754,11745,10102,62,997,2297,453,953,2274,342,2299,2300],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}