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Why Monday is the most 'misunderstood' day: What's wrong with the start of the work week?

2023-12-11 17:19:47Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Why Monday is the most 'misunderstood' day: What's wrong with the
Why Monday is the most 'misunderstood' day

From The Economist

When the Boomtown Rats, an Irish band, released "I Don't Like Mondays" in 1979, the song became an instant hit. That same year, a 16-year-old killed two people and injured eight children at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego.

The perpetrator listed "I don't like Mondays" as the main reason why he committed the murders. However, that's not why the song resonated around the world. What people know all too well is the difficulty of mustering the energy to get out of bed on Monday morning to face the week ahead.

Many argue that starting the week at the office creates good energy. A paper published in 2021 by the Journal of Applied Psychology found that people tend to be more polite on Mondays and become more polite as the days go by.

But a 2015 paper published in the Medical Journal of Australia goes so far as to diagnose a new condition, Mondayitis. The authors define it as "an illness with a non-specific set of symptoms, including fatigue, lethargy or irritability, light-headedness and headache".

These symptoms usually appear on the first day of work after a period of rest, which can be a weekend or longer. This can lead people to decide to work from home or, if they show up at the office, not have the strength to continue working normally.

Mondayitis seems to be contagious, 'infecting' other days of the week. Some people now complain about the "Sunday scare," when the pre-Monday terror sets in as the weekend draws to a close. Both conditions can be exacerbated by a weekend hangover.

The transition from vacation to work affects everyone. The Covid-19 pandemic has caused many people to reevaluate their work-life balance. A broader movement is promoting the idea of ​​a four-day work week, a change of which would make Monday part of the weekend. Less ambitiously and more realistically, a social media campaign for "minimal Mondays" argues for a gentle start to the week.

All this reflects a deep human instinct towards self-indulgence and procrastination; there's a reason why "thank god it's monday" isn't included in t-shirts. However, on the first day of the week employees should not sink into apathy, fatigue and wishing things were different.

The previous 60 hours or so you've probably spent with people who have nothing to do with your work. You may have prepared, or simply enjoyed, a better meal than a sandwich you consume at work, you may have gone for a walk in the park or just sat in bed. Either way, you've almost certainly calmed down.

But the first shower, coffee and work after the weekend don't have to feel like a walk with a backpack full of rocks. On the contrary, they can be filled with a sense of setting and achieving new goals.


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