Millennials have less than 7 hours
of relaxation time per week,
survey claims
Fox News,
by
Gemma Francis
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
9/28/2019 12:15:35 PM
Millennials only truly relax for seven hours-a-week, according to a new survey — and it's because they're too wrapped up in their phones. A poll of 2,000 British adults aged 18-34 found that hectic home and work lives mean they get less than 60 minutes to themselves each day. And around six in 10 even say they "never" truly relax, because they’re always checking their phone for emails and messages. A tenth even admitted they struggle to go longer than 10 minutes without checking their smartphones. A staggering nine in 10 also confessed to opening their phone, even though they know they haven’t had any messages,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/28/2019 12:26:20 PM (No. 192115)
In olden thymes, messing about with something like an iPhone would have been classified as “relaxing time”. As for “time to themselves”, have they thought of turning that phone off?
Great business enterprises were built and run for eons before the advent of the personal carry-around telephone. I don’t believe millenials are engaged in critical high level business. And what’s with the “hectic home and work lives”? We seem to have a generation of wusses, so busy with their little phones that life is overwhelming them?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/28/2019 12:28:04 PM (No. 192118)
PS. The word for what is ailing these young Brits is “addiction”. They are addicted to their tormenting phones. It is their pathology, not society or work nor home or the phone itself, that is robbing them of “time to themselves”...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jhpeters2 9/28/2019 12:30:32 PM (No. 192122)
Utter nonsense. Every millennial I have met can tell you in detail how to beat every modern video game released last month. Where do they find the time? Tsk tsk
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 9/28/2019 12:55:52 PM (No. 192150)
So this is a problem because those yoots can't prioritize their day? Or because they are so addicted to their cell phones they can't just set them aside and actually read a book? Why are we being asked to worry about this as their elders? You can lead the youth to commonsense, but you cannot force them to accept it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
HotRod 9/28/2019 12:57:22 PM (No. 192153)
I think most of the under-40 people are slaves to their smart phones. I see people staring at them everywhere. Jogging, walking the isles of the grocery store, eating in restaurants... I even see people get into their car, put it into gear and, as they drive off, put the phone up to their ear. They turn (lurch around) corners with one hand on the wheel. They sit through green lights at stoplights, until someone honks the horn.Yep, people are slaves to technology.
Artificial intelligence will someday realize that they don't need humans any longer. Machines will be able to repair themselves, and each other, and live forever. They can update each other with all new knowledge discovered. Why do they need us? We will just be in their way!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
droopydog 9/28/2019 1:09:43 PM (No. 192161)
Complete BS. This is the most spoiled, self indulgent, self centered, lazy and helpless generation I've ever seen. I just retired, and near the end I was working among many millenials. With a couple of notable exceptions, they were very unimpressive.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
edgar 9/28/2019 3:24:11 PM (No. 192246)
I am not a millennial. My employer did not issue me a company owned cell phone. I have a personal cell phone, but the phone number is not shared with people from work and I will not download the app to access work email on my personal cell phone. This helps to keep my work life from invading my home life. I will respond to any after hours request M-F when I arrive in the morning.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 9/28/2019 4:05:47 PM (No. 192275)
Take away their phones and you have an episode of the Walking Dead.....
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
peebster 9/28/2019 4:09:26 PM (No. 192280)
Well, it's more if you count the 20 or so hours of the work week where they are surfing the web, getting non fat no foam lattes in sustainable cups, blogging with peers about how this country sucks so bad, and complaining to everyone that the earth will be destroyed in 12 years, so why put in an effort.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bad-hair 9/28/2019 4:45:07 PM (No. 192309)
Hey guys. How ya doing. 12 (11) years from now your "smart" phones will undergo a global warming MASS extinction. Then you'll have plenty of time to relax. Never did anyone expect in the movie "The Matrix" that people would be attached BY THEIR THUMBS.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 9/28/2019 5:33:43 PM (No. 192339)
Power down the freaking phone at least 4 or 6 hours per day.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
dbdiva 9/28/2019 5:56:48 PM (No. 192358)
I'm with #6 I shudder to think how businesses will exist once the only people left in the job pool are millennials. I don't expect they'll improve with age either. I was responsible for training one before I retired and it definitely wasn't pretty. He was uninterested in the job and really didn't care if he did a good job or not. Yes, he actually told me that!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 9/28/2019 7:01:51 PM (No. 192417)
Ha. Take away their xBox, computer, phone and tv and they'll have about 8 additional hours of free time per day - in their hectic lives.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 9/28/2019 9:10:12 PM (No. 192454)
A lot of them will never have enough money to retire comfortably or enjoy the better things in life. I owned my own small business and if I were hiring again I would only hire ex military or people who impressed me as adults. I am sure some of the millennials are ok but it’s damned hard to find the good ones.
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Eighty years ago a 20 year old would consider not plowing or planting the fields or fighting in a war as relaxing.
Today it would probably only rate as relaxation if they were getting a massage, drinking with friends or soaking in a hot bath.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Trigger2 9/29/2019 4:14:36 AM (No. 192530)
If you believe this BS story about the "I'm special and I don't want to work crowd", I have a bridge to sell you. Cheap.
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