Lmao work doesn’t even come 5th in my list of important things. Who the fuck puts work first? Have a life or something idk
A long as the social system under which we all live is such that work is tied to money and money is tied to survival, the dissociation is a luxury few can afford.
As the old saying goes, “people like to work hard in the past tense”. So mostly retired boomers burnishing the sense of responsibility they avowedly had in previous decades, all the better to mount the moral high ground.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Nearly one-fifth of British people in the study said that work was not important in their life, the highest proportion among the 24 countries, which included France, Sweden, the US, Nigeria, Japan and China.
Britons were also among the least likely to say that work should always come first over leisure time, according to the research by the Policy Institute at King’s College London.
While most generations’ opinions on whether work should always come first have remained stable, millennials, born in the early 1980s to mid-1990s, have become much less likely to agree with this view: in 2009, 41% felt this way; by 2022, this had fallen to 14%.
Prof Bobby Duffy, the director of the Policy Institute at King’s College London and principal investigator in the study, said millennials “have become much more sceptical about prioritising work as they’ve made their way through their career” due to “the long-term economic and wage stagnation that will lead younger generations to question the value of work”.
The people most likely to say that work was very important in their lives were mostly based in lower- and middle-income countries, with the Philippines, Indonesia and Nigeria all coming out top.
Duffy said that, although there were specific dynamics in the UK in terms of inequality, the data also suggested there was a “long-term shift in preferences for work-life balance across a wide range of richer countries”.
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Oh wow. Employers can cry me a river for 2 bucks per minute.
Luckily I work where there’s expectation that you should have a healthy work/life balance. I’ve been in interview situations where we actively throw away people who seem not to have a good work/life balance
Being in an environment that supports throwing away people hardly seems lucky.
People who want to work, work and work is not good to have as colleagues and employees. They will stress put their colleagues and get burned out. With a healthy work-life balance, and 35 hours work week, people are more happy and less sick
Well, I am not defending overworking. I simply felt your wording was expressing behavior and ideas that seem rather harsh.
Article states that now only 14% of millennials believe work to be important, probably because that’s the number that is being paid an acceptable or better wage while the rest of us barely make it by but see our bosses buying third homes and 4th sports car
