The corporate millennials are not OK. You hear: “I get dirty thoughts about you.”
You read on screen: “Corporate Millennials manifesting quitting their 9-5 and starting a new life.”
This particular batch of millennials is caught in a moment of redefining their relationship with their jobs.
And for some of them, the new definition means leaving their gigs altogether.
What’s driving this moment is a combination of many things, all happening at the same time.
Granted, this is true for only some of the more than 72 million millennials in the US.
Not everyone is able or willing to walk away from a paycheck.
And in 2021, millennials aren’t the only ones reappraising their work lives.
A record4.5 million people quit their jobsin November alone, according to the US Labor Department.
Over the years, productivity became a tool for the individual, rather than the group.
“That’s just never the way that our brain works.”
Yet hustling has ascended to new heights.
There are more than 4 million Instagram posts tagged with #riseandgrind.
Thank God it’s Monday
One doesn’t enter #beastmode overnight.
The younger generations have always been treated as weird when they enter the work world.
Millennials, by comparison, were the first generation to grow up with the internet.
Young people, they said, would jump from job to job.
People started looking at work not just as a means of survival.
Instead, a job could have meaning.
When leisure becomes work
Hustle hasn’t just taken over the way people work.
It’s also crept into the way they spend their free time.
We know exactly what we will be producing.
But leisure’s benefit seems to be much more abstract," Malkoc says.
So, he found one at a company, working in sales.
It was a place with boundaries, where he could actually log off.
He figures that after nearly a decade in the workforce, millennials have learned which working environments they prefer.
