This is an interesting question 🤔

I’m 41, worked with a lot of boomers in industry. In legacy companies there is a correlation of hours worked = work ethic, but I think this is remnants of the Fredrick Winslow Taylor era of industrialization measuring hours to output.

Modern manufacturing within then “lean” context, especially as it pertains to “kaizen” combines efforts of improvement by discovering creativity through collective practices. This is a practice born out of the east. I haven’t worked in tech, but from what I can tell, much of the same model is applied in that area, so with that being said, I suspect that philosophical and cultural differences play a stronger role, but also legacy status and demographics factor into it in a smaller way.