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WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Battle Over Mondays in the Office

WSJ Your Money Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Business News

3.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Even as many companies allow employees to continue to work a hybrid schedule, some managers are insisting that workers come into the office on Mondays. WSJ contributor Anne-Marie Chaker joins host J.R. Whalen to discuss the pushback from workers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.0

Here's your money briefing from Monday July 17th. I'm JR Whalen for the Wall Street Journal.

0:35.6

For some office employees on a hybrid schedule, working from home on Monday might be a no-brainer

0:41.2

as they ease back into the work week. Many managers disagree. There's a movement called

0:47.2

bare minimum Mondays even where workers advocate like really taking it easy on Monday so that

0:54.4

they give themselves a break and don't burn out. Managers are fed up with this and they are

1:00.8

starting to say, hey, we want Monday to be in person in the office. Get your button in your

1:06.6

chair at 9 a.m. and let's treat Monday like any other day. We'll talk to Wall Street Journal

1:11.6

contributor Ann Marie Chaker after the break.

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1:41.2

Managers are making a push to get workers into the office on Mondays and in some cases,

1:46.1

it's not going over very well with workers. WSJ's Ann Marie Chaker joins us.

1:51.5

So Ann Marie, many companies are still in a hybrid schedule. What days do workers tend to come into

1:57.0

the office? Yeah, the big days tend to be in the middle of the week, right? So Tuesdays, Wednesdays

2:02.7

and Thursdays. Those are the days that companies ask workers to come in. They can set their own

2:09.2

schedule. Sometimes they see who else is going to be there. They can schedule a desk. Friday's

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