Bare Minimum Monday
A self-care work hack popularised on TikTok in 2023 by creator Marisa Jo Mayes, in which the first day of the working week is deliberately spent doing only the minimum required tasks — no aggressive to-do list, no back-to-back meetings, no "starting the week strong".
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A self-care work hack popularised on TikTok in 2023 by creator Marisa Jo Mayes, in which the first day of the working week is deliberately spent doing only the minimum required tasks — no aggressive to-do list, no back-to-back meetings, no "starting the week strong". The idea is to ease into work gradually as an antidote to Sunday-night anxiety and burnout culture, then ramp up effort across Tuesday–Thursday. Bare Minimum Monday sits alongside quiet quitting and lazy girl jobs as part of a broader Gen-Z rejection of always-on productivity, and is most often discussed by remote and knowledge workers with control over their own calendars.
I've been doing Bare Minimum Monday for two months now and my Sundays don't feel like a countdown to a panic attack anymore.
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- Bare Minimum Mondays80%
(Internet slang, neologism) The trend of doing as little as possible at work on Mondays in order to reduce stress during the rest of the week.
- bare maxxing63%
Bare maxxing is the intentional pursuit of doing absolutely nothing — optimising your life for the least possible output. Where hustle culture tells you to grind, bare maxxing tells you to stop, breathe, and embrace the radical act of not performing. It's laziness reframed as strategy, or unbothered living taken to its logical extreme. You're not slacking; you're maximising your bare existence with full philosophical commitment.
- slow mornings61%
The deliberate anti-hustle morning — no alarm, coffee in a real mug, no phone for the first hour, a window. The opposite of "that girl" 5am routines. Wellness TikTok's softer wing after the optimize-everything exhaustion of 2022–2023.
- Lazy Girl Job60%
A type of role — coined and popularised by TikTok creator Gabrielle Judge in spring 2023 — that is fully remote, low-stakes, easy to perform, pays well enough to live on, and ends cleanly at the end of the workday. Lazy girl jobs are typically mid-level individual-contributor positions in operations, customer success, marketing or admin: meaningful enough to take pride in, but with no on-call, no team to manage and no expectation of after-hours work. The framing is explicitly post-girlboss — Judge's pitch is that women shouldn't have to grind themselves into burnout to be considered serious — and went viral in late 2023 with millions of "what's your lazy girl job?" replies.
- Lying Flat59%
The English-language adoption of China's "tang ping" movement: a deliberate decision to opt out of hustle culture by doing only what's necessary to live, refusing extra hours, declining promotions and reducing material ambitions. Picked up by Western journalists and TikTok creators from 2021 onward, "lying flat" became a useful umbrella term for a cluster of related stances — quiet quitting, the lazy girl job, snail girl era — that all reject the assumption that career advancement should be life's organising principle. Some commentators frame lying flat as a soft labour protest, others as a personal mental-health strategy; in practice both readings overlap.