Bare minimum Monday: doing “the minimal amount of work necessary on Mondays.” The TikTok creator Marisa Jo Mayes coined it in 2022 as an answer to burnout. One business news site warned that it “could derail your career.”
Lazy girl job: a flexible, often remote job with work-life balance, a phrase made popular on TikTok by Gabrielle Judge. “There’s no one that tells us to do less,” she said. A Boston Globe writer called the name a “colossal branding error” and wrote, “Setting a boundary between your work and the rest of your life is far from lazy.”