bare minimum Monday

English

Etymology

From bare minimum +‎ Monday; coined by TikToker Marisa Jo Mayes in the same vein as quiet quitting.

Noun

bare minimum Monday (plural bare minimum Mondays)

1. (business, neologism) The trend of doing as little as possible at work on Mondays in order to reduce stress during the rest of the week. [from 2023]
   • 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:

     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 April 17, “You’ve probably had the Sunday scaries. To beat them, consider ‘bare minimum Mondays’”, in Goh Chiew Tong‎^[1]:

     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.

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

     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.