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title: Are Millennials Really Lazy at Work?
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published: '2015-05-04T16:00:21.000Z'
modified: '2015-05-04T16:00:21.000Z'
section: Career Advice
tags:
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  - Careers
  - entitled
  - Gen X
  - Gen Y
  - job
  - job search
  - lazy
  - Millennials
  - unemployed
  - video
  - Workplace
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