Work from home, moonlighting, quiet quitting, and mass resignation. To add to the trends, a recent ‘way to avoid getting completely burnt out’ is 'Bare Minimum Mondays.
Employees hating to get up and go for work on Mondays, found itself termed as Monday Blues. This led to people thinking about the eve of Monday or what came to be known as “Sunday Scaries".
The Sunday evening would be the anxiety employees would feel to make it to work on Mondays. In a 2021 poll by YouGov, 58% of the 4,000 people surveyed responded that Monday was their least favorite day of the week.
TikToker and start-up founder Marisa Jo Mayes popularised the term- Bare Minimum Mondays, wherein an employee ‘show up to work to only do the bare minimum on a Monday, often starting the day late after a productive morning of self-care rituals’ according to Fortune.