2020 it was the Great Resignation.  In the face of the pandemic record numbers of people took this job and shoved it.   Next … at the tail end of the pandemic we got quiet quitting.  Where you lope through the workday expending the minimum amount of oxyge. but still collect a paycheck.

Now…. the new trend in work life balance… have you heard this?

Bare Minimum Monday.  Here’s the young woman who dreamed up the term.  

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That is Maris Mayes… who creates Tik Tok videos… but probably didn’t today. See on Mondays… she oh so gently eases back into the concept of working.

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You’re probably saying … structure… flow… what?  There’s a world of people who gotta be at work by 9… because they pay me to do the job.  It works… but nobody’s pulling a fast one on you.  They actually call it to work.   But in a country filled with burnt-out employees on the precipice of quitting… even the HR Department is getting in on this.  I read one website for HR Professionals that suggests companies lean into Bare Minimum Monday to help cut down on burnout. 

One red flag… the boss should never show up Monday morning ready to implement a new genius idea dreamed up over the weekend. That … is poison.   I could offer more suggestions and a funny ending.  But I’ve done enough. And it’s Monday.