Posted on 12/22/2016 7:25:44 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
As soon as he awakes, Brian Porrell checks his e-mail, sometimes firing off a message before he gets out of bed. He makes calls during his commute to the Waltham staffing firm WinterWyman, spends 10 to 12 hours at the office and out visiting clients, and keeps his phone by his side at night, checking work e-mails while he watches sports on TV.
Like many workers today, Porrell, 30, is on the job wherever he is — and he doesn’t count out-of-office exchanges in his 50-plus hour week.
The millennial generation, the first to grow up with smartphones in their hands, is often stereotyped as lazy and entitled. But workplace experts say workaholics are common among 19-to-35-year-olds, perhaps more so than among older members of Generation X and baby boomers.
In one online study, more than 4 in 10 millennials consider themselves “work martyrs” — dedicated, indispensable, and racked with guilt if they take time off
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
Oh Lordy....that hasn’t been true since the sixties
I worked in Silicon Valley.....the length of a project was considered long term employment
Must be why they are giving seminars for HR Directors on how to deal with today’s Millenial work force.
One of the suggestions is “Inflate their job titles”.
Because they pop-out of school with zero experience, but expect to be given decision-making roles in your company.
Different generations, same activity, different medium.
I know folks close to retirement who spend more time chatting and talking to co-workers over non-work issues, but they do it face-to-face.
They're no more or less productive than the millennial doing the same thing via electronic means.
I work with one millennial who is a real go-getter. Actually several. They do things differently, but the work is done, done right, done early, and they're off to the next task. It really is dependent on the person, not the age.
Still so young and wet behind the ears
The boomers were said not to measure up.
Now after all these decades, it is affirmed.
Sometimes such statements are absolutely warranted.
I hear ya. I just marvel how hard my grandpa worked at the same company for so long and had such a work ethic. Guess i’m living in the past.
Gamer workaholics
HR lady at my job said job jumping is a norm today.
An on-line study? LOL
The story’s author has never worked with the people he writes about. These ‘workaholics’ actually think the are fantastic workers because they work a few hours in an 8-hour, and if they work 10 or 12 hours, nothing productive is required of them before they think of themselves as ‘workaholics’.
Touched a nerve, huh? Hope you have the day off today and aren’t making America great by posting on FR during work hours.
Let me revise my earlier comment: Nobody ever made America great by doing email no matter how defensive they are about it.
That’s better.
Problem is, there just aren’t enough good jobs to go around. Too many college grad millennials working as table servers and baristas, living at home after college. There are many reasons for this development of which many books have written. There was a time when every young person was all but guaranteed a breadwinner job out of high school or college.
Use to be I was a average worker.
Moderate and steady. Rarely miss days of work.
However in recent years I have become above average.
Although, I haven’t changed..
This is a universal truth.
What does it say in Genesis...that one out of three angels were bad?
From Google: According to Revelation 12, the rebel host aggregated one-third of the angels in heaven. They fell for 9 days. Their number was estimated in the 15th century to have been 133,306,668 (the tabulation of Cardinal Bishop of Tusculum).
That DOES mean that two out of three are good. That bodes well for us.
That was when a company was loyal to the worker, too. Companies are no longer loyal to employees, and vice-versa.
The millennials I’ve come across in my family and their friends are very hard workers. You might say even that they are obsessive workers. I think there are definitely two very different kinds of millennials. The one type is the one I’ve described. Then there are the wanna-be hipster millennials who think they are owed a living and would rather play on their iphones than put in a hard day at work.
They work hard at not working...typical teenagers.
I’ve met only a handful that were normal. Even then they were sensitive metrosexual types.
It takes a lot of time to maintain 1000’s of FB friends.
That being said my daughter sells real estate and FB is really important in sales.
Does steady activity equal productivity less than 50% of the time or more than 50% of the time? “Doesn’t necessarily” sounds anecdotal at best.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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39 again? :o)
27 COULD be the year you were born or the 27th day of the month.
It COULDN'T be your I.Q. or how many children you have. :o)
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