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
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Most the of Millennials i work with are job jumpers and are lazy. Some do work hard but most are looking for the next best thing.
Nobody ever made America great by doing email.
You can’t be job jumpers and lazy. There is nothing wrong with looking for something better.
These work martyrs also don’t mind chatting endlessly or skyping with friends during those supposedly productive 50 hours.
What are you talking about? Email is an essential part of any job. It’s just a communication vehicle. I work out of my home at times just responding and writing emails. That’s what business is to some.. communication and nurturing relationships. I can’t believe some of you are belittling this article. This is a GOOD thing for the future of America. Yeesh.
My 20 year-old daughter interned at my company last summer.
Her manager said she was more productive and had better attention to detail than any of the 6 full-time members of the permanent staff.
There are good and bad in every generation.
May I ask how old you are? 27?
It seems they keep a job from 6 months to a year and book. Not like the old days when my grandpa worked for a company for 30 years.
38.
Title should read: Most millenials are lazy, some are workaholics.
What does the 27 stand for? :)
Every generation when young; was always said to not measure up to past generations.
This one is likely no different and will do just fine on the long run.
But it really hasn’t been that way for a long time because of the mobile society.
Yes workaholics. That’s why 40% of them are still living with their parents.
That was true in my twenties as well. Most of it happened because it was the only way to get a dec nt raise
Steady activity doesn’t necessarily equal productivity.
Yeah, I notice a lot of the younger folks at work seem to think endless meetings and email chains are “work”, when they are generally just distractions from getting real work done.
My birthday.
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