![]() ![]() on weekdays, golf courses are packed, according to a Stanford University study. Meanwhile, billionaire and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg went as far as to claim that remote workers are all playing golf every Friday-and he may have a point. Likewise, Steven Roth, chairman of New York–based real estate giant Vornado Realty Trust and one of New York’s biggest office landlords, recently declared that Fridays in the office are officially “ dead forever.” While office occupancy rates on a Wednesday sits at 60%, this figure is slashed nearly in half on a Friday, to 33%. Kastle Systems, which provides security for 2,600 buildings across 138 cities in the U.S., has found that most workers are at their desks from Tuesday through Thursday. But Fridays are rarely included in these RTO mandates. ![]() Some 2.5 million workers have been ordered back to the office this year, with even the staunchest promoters of remote working like Meta and Zoom enforcing in-person working. Why Fridays are pointlessĪlthough Cowell didn’t divulge why he thinks working on a Friday is “pointless”-as opposed to, say, working on a Monday-research shows that most people are either working from home or avoiding work entirely on the last working day of the traditional workweek. Now his Fridays are filled with entertaining his 10-year-old son Eric, by doing the likes of driving “25 miles to buy a Pokemon card."Īfter decades of hustling, Cowell also revealed, he has a few nonnegotiable habits in place to maintain his work-life balance. ![]() “I don’t think anyone should be working five days a week. “I’m not kidding about the Fridays,” the British entrepreneur doubled down. Don’t work on Fridays, because you don’t have to,” the 'America's Got Talent' creator told the British newspaper The Sun ahead of filming his new show America’s Got Talent Fantasy League. “Actually, the first thing is take off Fridays. The 63-year-old multimillionaire recently revealed that he’s ditched the traditional workweek and the hectic lifestyle of working almost 20 hours a day while running shows like The X Factor-and Cowell’s enjoying his newfound work-life balance so much that he’s evangelizing everyone else to switch to a four-day week too. Even media tycoon Simon Cowell has given up working on the last day of the workweek, because “it’s pointless.” As the four-day week, hybrid working, and summer hours become increasingly popular, Friday has become the de facto day to take off work. ![]()
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