London: Generation Y — those born in and after late 80s — take employment simply as a means for paying bills and value their leisure time far more than people of older generations, a survey has found.
The study of 16,507 Americans spanning three decades concluded that those born in the late 1980s — the so-called Generation Y — expect to ‘have their cake and eat it’.

They — today’s young workers — want jobs with big salaries, status and plenty of leisure time — without having to put in the hours, the researchers said.
The members of the generation, it appears, consider themselves to be entitled to it all and for them hard work is an alien concept, the Daily Mail reported.
They want a job with an easy pace and lots of holidays. They are also less likely to want to work overtime, the survey found.
In other words, the younger generation wants to have their cake in big salaries and eat it too by retaining a healthy work-life balance, said the researchers.
The study was published in the Journal of Management.     —PTI