THANK GOD IT’S THU RSDAY
Forget the ASX200 and shut down that news site. To get an accurate aicture of exactly what our work ife looks like, you need only read the body language of the post office queue on a Saturday morning. Toes tap tensely. There’s a soundtrack of sighs. Eyes dart from the wall clock to just-refreshed Insta feeds and back as a room of frustrated full-time workers watch the free time they’ve worked so hard for all week slowly tick away.
It makes you dream, doesn’t it? What if there were a day of the week on which you could line up all your general life admin, so that weekends were actually weekends again? What if Sunday evenings were a time of genuine relaxation, during which you felt mentally satisfied from all you’d done (or not)? What if Thursday became Friday? As employers catch on to the idea that cultivating a happy – and productive – workforce will take something more meaningful than a biannual team paintballing trip, the latest developments in workplace psychology question whether it’s not what you do in your role that influences your wellbeing, but how many hours you put in. Intrigued?
