Do you get any work done on Fridays?
I used to love Fridays. It was a payoff for working hard Monday-Thursday. You work that entire week to try and line up your perfect Friday. Maybe you plan on taking off a little early to catch some golf or get out of town. Or perhaps you just want to just get a few end of the week tasks done and talk about the baseball games going on this weekend.
Which is why I ask if anyone does anything on Friday. Because I feel like, more and more, I get more accomplished on Friday than any other day of the week. My Monday starts off like many of yours with a meeting of some sort. If any issues have come up over the weekend, they are waiting for me at my desk after that meeting. The rest of the day is setting up interviews and meetings for Monday - Thursday. Whenever I try to schedule anything on Friday, it is usually rebuffed. People don’t want to meet on Friday or too many people are going to be gone. I’ve never done a lot of interviews on Friday.
So what happens is that there are all of these other important tasks that get heaped up over the course of the week and since nobody is in the office or people aren’t wanting to meet with them (and are essentially compressing our schedules to a four day work week), it ends up that Friday is an incredibly productive time for me to get things done.
And while I realize this is geared for M-F workers, what do you do on your “Fridays”? Is it like any other day? Do you get to set your feet up? Or are you like me and become busy?
Originally
from YourHRGuy.com
by Your HR Guy
on Apr 13, 2007, 1:44PM
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