Millions Rerun Sunday Work Just To Feel Marginally Less Dead Mondays
KEY POINTS
- •Microsoft reported increased weekend email activity in 2025, highlighting a growing culture of Sunday work.
- •Executive coach Shane Arthur advises against working Sunday nights, recommending planning time on Monday and Friday instead.
- •The advice challenges Silicon Valley’s intense 996 work model, aiming to protect personal time from work encroachment.
In 2025, Microsoft noticed people apparently treat weekends like a second Monday, spotting a 'notable bump' in email activity among their workplace software users. Executive coach Shane Arthur, who advises CEOs and business owners (aka the lucky ones who really hate their lives), warns that crushing Sunday night prep is a bad idea—‘Don’t do that.’ Instead, Arthur suggests carving time Monday morning and Friday afternoon to plan or review work weeks, maintaining some holy ground between toil and downtime. This advice comes amid Silicon Valley’s ongoing mashup debate between 'grindslop' and the infamous 996 work culture, which basically demands working six days a week with no rescue mission in sight. Business Insider, ever alert to your tortured labor, wants to know if you’re joining the Sunday slog or trying to keep a Sunday sanctuary before your coffee becomes a courtroom.
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(1 of 3)Working on Sunday to get ahead is like putting duct tape on a sinking ship. Sure, it sticks, but splashdown is inevitable and more miserable. We’re all terrible drivers on the highway of life with no GPS and too much caffeine.
If your weekend emails are multiplying faster than laundry, welcome to the cult of crushed Sundays. Spoiler: nobody wins.
Sunday warrior? More like Sunday worker bee with no hive. At least bees get honey. You get burnout.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 8/25/2026 | Author: Tim Paradis
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