Tuesdays 11:45 am …
..is apparently the worst time of the week according to British researchers.
Most workers coast through Monday getting their brain in gear and catching up with gossip from the weekend through social networking sites.
But on Tuesday reality sets in and staff spend the first part of the day going through emails they ignored on Monday before planning the week ahead.
And 11.45am is the point when everything comes to a head.
Are Tuesdays really that bad? I guess I don’t really have best and worst days of the week as the majority of what I do is just data entry. But I have to pick the worst day of the week then that will be Wednesday. Wednesday is when the network is most likely to crash. My work is highly dependent on the speed of the network so once it crashes, I won’t be able to do anything. It is also when I have my “enough is enough” time and go nuts at doing repetitive tasks. Thursdays and Fridays are usually good days because it’s closer to the weekend and I look forward to evening outings.
And later on, it reveals that:
More than 53 per cent of those polled admitted cruising through Monday and one in ten said they further delayed their tasks for the week by logging onto Facebook to view photos from their weekend antics.
Facebooks blocked in most workplaces in Australia anyway, so it doesn’t affect me all that much. And I am glad that it’s blocked because otherwise most people would be playing Scrabulous all afternoon. As for photo viewing, it only happens when someone goes on holidays so it’s not that bad.
So the answer to the question - What’s the most stressful day of the week ? can be quite subjective. Different people work in different companies and different schedules. And it is also dependent on the nature of the work involved..
