I created Minimal Mondays, Gen Z’s latest low-effort work trend.

You’ve heard of “silent quitting” – now get ready for “Minimum Monday”.

It’s the latest corporate trend taking over TikTok, coined by Marisa Jo Mayes after she suffered an all-too-familiar workplace burnout.

The #bareminimummondays hashtag has already racked up 2 million views on the platform with videos of users taking part in the seemingly easy trend.

When 29-year-old Mays became frustrated with her corporate job, she turned to self-employment, but realized a problem she still faced: She called herself a perfectionist.

“I woke up on Monday very burnt out, very unproductive,” Mayes, who boasts more than 154,000 TikTok followers, told The Post. “And because I was so unhappy with my unproductiveness, I made myself a long to-do list.”

By the end of the day, she was so overwhelmed by the presumptuous pressure that she “felt like crap” because she could barely complete her tasks. She was so afraid of Monday that her weekly “Sunday horror stories” would have paralyzed her – and her work ethic.

“Every Sunday night I went to bed very late, knowing that Monday would come faster the earlier I went to bed,” said the creator from Phoenix. “Then I went to bed as long as possible on Monday, knowing that the second I woke up, the second stress would return, and the second my long to-do list would return.”

Hint: Minimum Mondays, a “burnout prevention strategy” where employees go out of their way to get through the worst day of the week with the least amount of work.

“It’s more of an opportunity for people to slowly start to wean themselves off the hustle culture until corporate America catches up with them,” she said. “The situation is changing and I feel that employees are tired of sacrificing their well-being for the sake of good results at work.”

The day Mays decided to lower her expectations, she says, the more productive she became while working—a seemingly insurmountable pinnacle of tasks became more manageable when narrowed down to a few. Now, she says, it has changed her life.

“It has completely changed the way I think about productivity and work, and the way I think about myself,” she added.

Gen Z-led movements such as The Great Retirement and Act for Your Pay come from young workers irritated by overwork, underpayment, and most importantly, unhappiness. In fact, at the beginning of this year, the workers took the “quiet” part to a new level – they quit for a penny without two weeks’ notice.

The Monday minimum is another variation on the same theme: young employees focus on their autonomy.

“I think over the years people’s callings have defined their lives, not the other way around, and so I think people really like the idea of ​​being in control of their schedule and their workload,” Avery Morris, 21, senior lecturer. an influencer marketing manager, told The Post, adding that Generation Z is “reclaiming” their work-life balance.

In fact, Atlanta-based TikToker, which is “prone to Sunday scares and burnout,” is noticing the trend. Low Mondays, she told The Post, “easing” the anxiety she feels at the start of the week, allowing her to enjoy a “slow morning” instead of “jumping straight into stressful tasks.”

In the viral clip, Morris weighed in on which work trend she prefers: “minimum on Mondays” or “complete at 2pm on Fridays.” But her joyful video caused a backlash.

“You are seriously going to send us all back to the office,” one user chided, while another quipped, “These people wonder why management is forcing them to come back.”

One person even took a shot at everyone who bragged about their poor online efforts, stating that antics would “ruin everything”.

But fellow burnt-out TikTokers have marveled at the newfound trend, which has allowed them to take some pressure off of themselves.

“I really like this concept because I feel like every Monday I put a lot of pressure on myself to achieve so many different goals and then I inevitably burn out, and then I feel exhausted for the rest of the week,” the actor. — said the model Angela Naris in the video TikTok.

Another user, known by the pseudonym Celeste, cited the hack as the key to her effectiveness, saying it forced her to “prioritize my time effectively.”

It’s not a “fraud,” she exclaimed, “because she’s “exceeding” her boss’s expectations.

But the positive online response hasn’t made Mays immune to criticism from corporate bosses. She claimed to be getting insane messages from professionals who are “armed” about the performance hack, asking what they should report to their bosses.

“If corporations email me like, ‘What the hell are you doing? All this is done by our employees!” “Well, look in the mirror then,” she said.

“It seems that the more we start prioritizing our well-being and treating ourselves like real people, the more corporations will have a problem with this,” Mays muses.