These work martyrs also don’t mind chatting endlessly or skyping with friends during those supposedly productive 50 hours.
Steady activity doesn’t necessarily equal productivity.
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.
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’.