"Bare minimum Mondays" could derail your career
The big picture: Like "quiet quitting" — a viral term defined as workers who don't do more than is necessary — bare minimum Mondays encourage easing into work by doing just enough to get by and practicing self-care at the start of the work week.
The big picture: Like "quiet quitting" — a viral term defined as workers who don't do more than is necessary — bare minimum Mondays encourage easing into work by doing just enough to get by and practicing self-care at the start of the work week.
By the numbers: Employee engagement in the U.S. has been on the decline and dropped from 36% engaged employees in 2020 to 32% in 2022, according to Gallup’s Employee Engagement Survey.
Bare minimum Monday benefits
Mayes, a self-employed millennial and startup co-founder, said on TikTok that she keeps the first two hours of her Monday free and schedules three tasks for the day.
Can Bare minimum Mondays backfire?
Between the lines: Ivan Misner, founder of the business networking organization BNI, said he thinks bare minimum Mondays could "totally backfire on employees" and "sets up people to fail in their role."
Source: Axios
- TikToker Marisa Jo Mayes has been posting about her Monday routine and how it's helped her since March of last year, but bare minimum Mondays have recently broken through.
- "Haven't you heard of bare minimum Mondays?" South Park character Eric Cartman said in a March episode of the show, minutes into his first job. "It's a thing that young people created because we care about our mental health."
The big picture: Like "quiet quitting" — a viral term defined as workers who don't do more than is necessary — bare minimum Mondays encourage easing into work by doing just enough to get by and practicing self-care at the start of the work week.
- TikToker Marisa Jo Mayes has been posting about her Monday routine and how it's helped her since March of last year, but bare minimum Mondays have recently broken through.
- "Haven't you heard of bare minimum Mondays?" South Park character Eric Cartman said in a March episode of the show, minutes into his first job. "It's a thing that young people created because we care about our mental health."
By the numbers: Employee engagement in the U.S. has been on the decline and dropped from 36% engaged employees in 2020 to 32% in 2022, according to Gallup’s Employee Engagement Survey.
- 18% of employees were actively disengaged, which also increased by 4 percentage points from 2020, Gallup found.
- A recent study from LinkedIn and Headspace found that nearly 75% of working Americans say they experience the Sunday scaries.
Bare minimum Monday benefits
Mayes, a self-employed millennial and startup co-founder, said on TikTok that she keeps the first two hours of her Monday free and schedules three tasks for the day.
- "Before I started doing bare minimum Monday, I was physically sick with stress and I couldn't produce anything because of the level of burnout I had reached," Mayes said in a video.
- "This wasn't set out to be a productivity hack because it was started to make myself feel better but it's ended up putting me in a position to be way more productive than I ever thought possible because I'm cutting myself" some slack, Mayes said.
- Mayes said in another video that she loves the comparison of her creation and quiet quitting.
- "I think we're seeing a rejection of hustle culture manifest in a lot of different ways and bare minimum Monday is definitely one of them."
Can Bare minimum Mondays backfire?
Between the lines: Ivan Misner, founder of the business networking organization BNI, said he thinks bare minimum Mondays could "totally backfire on employees" and "sets up people to fail in their role."
- "Bare minimum Monday is a great way to get fired," Misner, author of the book "Who's In Your Room?" told Axios.
- Jay McDonald, an Atlanta-based business adviser and executive coach, agreed and said those who participate could "be vulnerable to layoff" if they don't have a "positive or constructive attitude or not really being committed to getting the job done."
- "I would look at the concept of priority management versus even time management, 'what are the priorities that you have to do?'" Misner said. "The key, I think, is rather than looking at it from a bare minimum is learning how to say no."
- McDonald, author of the book "Strategic Jaywalking: The Secret Sauce to Life & Leadership Excellence," said he likes the term "Balanced Mondays" instead of "bare minimum Monday because bare minimum seems one-sided."
Source: Axios