Youth of today certainly do work as hard as we did..
Part time during high school and college and long hours in most full time jobs.
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Hard evidence backs up the lower work ethic. A group “Monitoring The Future” has been surveying high school youth since 1975. I personally think the decline is worse from Boomers to Millennials than what these numbers show but its one example of real statistical data.
Boomers Gen X Millennials
Don’t want to work hard 26% 30% 38%
Willing to work overtime 59% 56% 47%
If had enough money would not want to work 22% 26% 29%