Throughout the cult 1999 workplace comedy Office Space, several characters remark, “Sounds like somebody’s got a case of the Mondays!”, much to the chagrin of anyone within earshot.
That particular film satirised 9-5 culture as it existed in the late ‘90s, but at the risk of stating the obvious, we are in a very different world now.
A new trend is emerging on social media and in workplace culture that sees Mondays evolving from the dread-inducing motivation killer it once was into a way for workers to ease into the week at their own pace: enter “Bare-minimum Monday”. The catalyst? What else––the remote work revolution and its aftermath.
One element of that revolution is the mental and physical wellbeing of workers, and how stress and burnout are no longer things to be endured, but easily avoidable hazards.