Bare Minimum Mondays – An Exercise In Self-Sabotage

After the pandemic began to ease, and labor availability was the lowest in recent history, many employees found themselves working more and more to fill the gaps in the workforce. That led to the trend popularized a year ago called "quiet quitting." Under its tamest definition, quiet quitting was/is a practice where employees only did their own job duties – not the duties of multiple employees. Now, quiet quitting has morphed into a new trend: "bare minimum Mondays."

Bare minimum Mondays is not just employees limiting their work to the duties of their specific job. It goes further than that. It is the idea that within the employee's specific duties, the employee does the absolute minimum – at least on Mondays. This trend demonstrates either a misunderstanding of the general direction of our economy, a naivete of how the world works, or a symptom of the employee's disassociated self – where the employee has failed to connect his/her work of today with