Young Aussies hit back at Steve Price for calling them "lazy"
Young Aussies have hit back at Steve Price after being criticised as lazy by the broadcaster.
Prince unleashed at younger generations on The Project while they were discussing the campaign for more leave initiated by the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association, which is pushing to increase annual leave to five weeks a year.
The union hopes to ease burnout in employees, and Price was not impressed with the calls for extra leave.
"We're trying to get productivity up in this country," he said.
"So we've got people refusing to go back to the office, working from home in barely washed tracksuit tops and bottoms, three days a week.
"And now they want five weeks holiday."
Georgie Tunny, a millennial, hit back at the boomer by arguing that the "work culture" has changed, especially among those new to the workforce.
"Especially for the younger generations, they see work completely differently," she said.
Price interrupted her saying that young Aussies just did not want to "work very hard", to which Tunny replied: "There's been a death of your job as your identity or career."
Social media users were quick to back Tunny, and took aim at Price.
"Where's the incentive for young people to work hard when working hard won't buy you a house or even afford you basic veggies," one said.
"You get what you pay for, and it's not worth it to work hard. There's literally no benefit to working as hard as you can," another added.
"When you're priced out of the market, priced out of holidays and priced out of necessities, what motivation is there to care or be productive," another added.
Others suggested that employers should "increase wages and introduce bonuses as incentives," to encourage their staff to work harder.
"Nobody is interested in working themselves to death for scraps," one person said.
"I don't want to work very hard for CEOs to make millions while I'm barley able to afford bread," another said.
"Our generation is just sick of working hard to have all the higher ups take the credit and the bag. We know what we're worth," a third added.
A recent Productivity Commission report found that Aussies born after 1990 are finding more difficult than previous generations to move up the financial ladder.
The report also found that young Aussies are increasingly earning less than their parents did at the same age, with the global financial crisis partially to blame for the weak income growth.
Images: The Project