Madison+main’s Weekly Report | 1.27.17

Generation after generation of Americans have valued hard work. It’s in our collective ethos. The “Puritan work ethic,” for example. Immigrants from all over the world come to America and work hard to earn the American Dream. The numbers are there; we work harder than other industrialized nations (34.4 hours per week), we take less vacations, and as a result, we built the world’s largest economy. All of the life lessons and motivational posters and clever quotes seem to have made their way to a younger generation of Americans. Despite the fact that Millennials have been much maligned, they have been “the first to grow up with smartphones in their hands, and are often stereotyped as lazy and entitled, 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,” according to a new study from Project Time Off. #Boom

I’ve known this for quite some time, because half of the Madison+Main-iacs are Millennials. And everyone here worked hard all week. It’s Friday, we’ve worked hard, now it’s time to play hard.