File: Chinnapong / iStock / Getty Images Plus) First came "quiet quitting;" now comes "bare minimum Monday" – the latest workplace trend receiving more and more support from the U.S.
labor force."Bare minimum Mondays, I can go with that. How could I work hard on Monday?" one young man told FOX Business’ Lydia Hu on the streets of New York City during a "Varney & Co." segment on Monday. "I want to sleep in.""Being able to chill on Monday and reset," another young woman added to the argument, "it's better.""I just feel like everyone just gets lazy and doesn't do s**t," a second young man said. "I’m lazy and I’m guilty of it."FORGET ‘QUIET QUITTING’: NOW WORKERS ARE STRESSING OUT COLLEAGUES WITH ‘QUIET CONSTRAINT’The trend reportedly started on TikTok, Hu mentioned in her report, where mostly young workers who feel overworked and underpaid say they’ve started doing as little as possible to start off the week on Mondays."I do believe on Monday a full recovery will be very beneficial," a gentleman admitted.The young man who'd previously expressed wanting to "sleep in" on Mondays additionally argued that "we’re always on our phones… looking at when our next break is."Workers being able to have a "full recovery" and "reset" day on Monday is "better" for their work morale, some Americans argued on "Varney & Co." (Getty Images) Amid a tight labor market with nearly two jobs for every unemployed American, other workers weren’t so open to the idea."Five days a week is fine," one person said. "[We’ve] been doing it a long time.""They're [not] working," an older man criticized.