Monday Blues

What is different about Monday! Is it not same as any other day? In fact it should be better than other days of the week, as it is the first day of the week and everybody is fresh and green to work after the weekend. Is it not?

Nope.. is the answer in bold. It should be called the priming day of the week. In short, it is a partial holiday in office, where employees change from holiday to working mode and get used to what they do or supposed to do best. This is widely known as Monday Blues. In our group, we usually tend to "fast" on Mondays. Yep, this is a term coined by us, which means it is a rest day in office.

Does this happen to all? Are all individuals the same? Why doesn't HR or managers account for this? It depends on what work you are into. For a person in a ticket window, a driver or people who do manual work this is totally absent. It is mostly present in IT and where independent individual contribution is done. Monday blue is broken when somebody approaches you for some work. For others who work independently, it continues for a longer period depending on the motivation level of the employee.

A fool's solution to this will to declare Monday a non-working day. A workaholic manager's solution is to login from home on Sunday evening. These are two extremes, what is the intelligent solution? Well, have motivated people and leave the rest the way it is. Time lost in the priming period will be made up in the same week as the week progresses... of course, if the week is long enough :).

Confession: This is written on a Monday morning, in office.