The thumbs-up emoji isn’t passive-aggressive – Gen Z need to get over it
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The younger generation interprets the popular emoji as a sign of aggression in the workplace. How on earth did this totally benign shorthand for ‘OK’ become so divisive, asks Helen Coffey?