{"id":3140,"date":"2015-09-04T10:27:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T10:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2015-09-04T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T10:27:09","slug":"revealed-16-24-year-olds-are-the-hardest-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/revealed-16-24-year-olds-are-the-hardest-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: 16-24 year olds are the hardest workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Younger workers in the UK are more likely to work longer hours than their older peers, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n

Research by OfficeGenie.co.uk found professionals and graduates aged 16-24 work an average of 7 hours and 22 minutes overtime every week \u2013 two more hours than staff over the age of 55.<\/p>\n

Employees in their thirties and forties work an additional five and a half hours per week, while the over 55s will put in at least 4 hours and 55 minutes.<\/p>\n

The results of the survey of 1,000 office workers also found that almost 11% of 16-24 age group do more than 20 hours overtime every week \u2013 around twice as many as other age groups.<\/p>\n

Location matters<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interestingly, the amount of additional hours these graduates put into their careers differs from location to location.<\/p>\n

Brighton seems to have the hardest working 16-24 year olds with employees claiming they put an additional eight hours and 43 minutes into overtime every week.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, London wasn\u2019t in the top five cities for hardest workers \u2013 tallying up just 5 hours and 16 minutes.<\/p>\n

The top five cities for hardworking youngsters were:<\/p>\n

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  1. Brighton \u2013 8 hours 43 minutes<\/li>\n
  2. Cardiff \u2013 7 hours 10 minutes<\/li>\n
  3. Manchester \u2013 6 hours 37 minutes<\/li>\n
  4. Newcastle \u2013 6 hours 18 minutes<\/li>\n
  5. Birmingham \u2013 6 hours 1 minute<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Ciaron Dunne, CEO at Office Genie, said that while younger workers tend to get bad press, there are a lot of misconceptions which this research clearly demonstrates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    He added that the high proportion of those under 24 who work more than 20 hours in overtime shows their true dedication and willingness to get ahead and work hard.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Are you a graduate employer? Get your hands on some of the hardest working talent and speak to Discovery Graduates today.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    SOURCE: <\/strong>http:\/\/www.onrec.com\/news\/news-archive\/16-24-year-olds-are-the-uks-hardest-workers-clocking-more-overtime-than-any-other-<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Younger workers in the UK are more likely to work longer hours than their older peers, according to a new survey. Research by OfficeGenie.co.uk found professionals and graduates aged 16-24 work an average of 7 hours and 22 minutes overtime every week \u2013 two more hours than staff over the age of 55. Employees in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[20,21,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-employer-news","category-graduate-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}