Work-life balance | Millennials work 780 hours a year less than parents

The age-old trope of older generations grilling youths with clichéd soundbites such as ‘In my day we worked more than you youngsters’ are often disregarded as seniors being seniors.

Yet, new research conducted by fitness network Hussle, indicates that modern professionals work an average of 783 hours per year less than their parents did – The Sun reports.

This, according to the research, is due to the dissolution of Britain’s once-prevalent ‘clock-in and clock-out’ culture, along with a rise in flexible working and self-employment career paths among the 18-35 age group.

This works out to an average of three hours’ a day less than the traditional nine to five. Two-thirds of Brits polled say that they are not chained to their desks, as their parents were.