'Bare minimum Monday' marks a convergence of pandemic-era trends: a blurring of the boundary between work and leisure, a tight labor market and social media content creators who've found a wide audience for workplace frustration, experts told ABC.
"Bare minimum Monday" marks a convergence of pandemic-era trends: a blurring of the boundary between work and leisure amid the rise of work from home, a tight labor market that has afforded leverage to employees and social media content creators who've found a wide audience for workplace frustration, experts told ABC News.
"It's a perfect storm of the type of expression and dissatisfaction we're seeing put on these platforms in a very public way," Brooke Duffy, a professor of communication at Cornell University who studies the impact of new technology on labor, told ABC News. "It isn't just being posted, but it's gaining traction.", despite high-profile layoffs at companies like Amazon and Twitter.Last month's unemployment rate fell to 3.4%, the lowest figure since 1969.
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