bare minimum Monday
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English[edit]
This English term is a hot word. Its inclusion on Wiktionary is provisional.
Etymology[edit]
From bare minimum + Monday; coined by TikToker Marisa Jo Mayes in the same vein as quiet quitting.
Noun[edit]
bare minimum Monday (plural bare minimum Mondays)
- (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.