bare minimum Monday

plural bare minimum Mondays

1. neologismbusinessThe trend of doing as little as possible at work on Mondays in order to reduce stress during the rest of the week.

   While bare minimum Monday is a concept that has resonated with many on social media, Jo acknowledges there are critics who see it as a way to slack off at work.

   2023 April 17, “You’ve probably had the Sunday scaries. To beat them, consider ‘bare minimum Mondays’”, in Goh Chiew Tong

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   Marisa Jo, a TikToker credited with gifting Bare Minimum Monday to the masses, describes it as a way to both eliminate the “Sunday scaries” and remove the “unnecessary pressure” she was putting on herself to be productive.

   2023 February 20, Tim Paradis, Rebecca Knight, “‘Bare Minimum Monday’ is nice, but it's got nothing on ‘Try-Less Tuesday’”, in Business Insider, US edition

   If the post-pandemic decline in the appeal of “hustle culture” and “leaning in” laid bare structures of worker exploitation, the rise of trends such as “bare minimum Mondays”, “lazy girl jobs” and “act your wage” are manifestations of a resentment in search of articulation.

   2024 May 18, “Loud quitting: Catharsis, breakdown”, in Indian Express, Mumbai