Millennials embrace the office happy hour

Younger and older employees don’t see eye to eye at all when it comes to getting drunk at company happy hours

As younger Americans permeate more and more of the workforce every day, they continue to change the social landscape at their companies. One of these changes is the increase in interactions after work – a recent poll from YouGov Omnibus finds that 62% of employed millennials say they attended a work happy hour at least once compared to just over half of all employed adults (52%). The survey also reveals that if someone ends up getting too “happy” at these events, they’d best do it in the company of younger colleagues who are less likely to judge them negatively.

YouGov polled employed adults to see just how many stuck around after work to attend a happy hour with their colleagues and found that many (46%) have never attended one . Of those who say they go “sometimes, “often”, or “every time”, men are more likely than women to attend these after work events (33% versus 22%). A closer look at age reveals that a quarter of employed adults between the ages of 35 and 54 say they’ll go at least sometimes (26%) and those over the age of 55 are even less likely to go (16%). Millennials appear to be the most eager age group to grab discounted drinks or food after work.