What Does This Mean?
Deliberately doing the least possible amount of work on Mondays to ease into the week gently, treated as a small act of resistance against always-on hustle culture.
EXPLAINER
Good Morning America · original source ↗
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News24 · original source ↗
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"It's a bare minimum Monday for me, checking email and nothing else until Tuesday."
LORE & ORIGIN
Coined by workplace culture commentators noticing a shift toward openly protecting the start of the week from being immediately overloaded, framing a slow Monday as a boundary rather than laziness.
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