A PR person recently sent me an email asking if I would like an article about something called Bare Minimum Monday. Apparently, this is an “initiative” that involves doing the bare minimum when you return to work after the weekend, so as to ease yourself back into work.
BMM, by Terry Freedman
I’ve worked with people who do the bare minimum, aka the least amount of work they can get away with, and not only on Mondays. The result tends to be either that their colleagues pick up the slack, or the end-user, such as the customer, is not given the quality of service they’re entitled to.
Apparently this is a thing embraced by, in particular, Gen Y and Gen Z — those people born between 1981 and 1996, and 1997 and 2012 respectively. Perhaps they think this is a great way of maintaining good mental health.
I should have thought that in these fragile and uncertain times, with AI taking jobs left, right and centre, doing as little as possible is perhaps not the wisest strategy.