Maia Ervin (left), Meenakshi Janardhanan (middle), Alexandra York (right) speaking at a Conference Board panel.The Conference BoardI recently sat on panels about what Gen Zers want from work.My fellow panelists and I said compensation, flexibility, and opportunities to grow were key.Here's my advice for leaders who seem unsure about how to talk with their young employees.It sometimes felt like a symposium of scientists discussing an alien species they'd discovered: Out there, somewhere, were Gen Zers.I was on stage at a conference, tasked with leading a conversation about the future of work from a Gen Z perspective.While I was joined by two fellow Gen Zers — other specimens of this alien genus — the audience seemed to contain only a handful of people under age 30.