"When freelance writer Sam Hindman sits down to work for a few hours on Sundays, she knows it will be quiet. There will be no pings and requests from her clients, no rush to meet an EOD deadline, and no scrambling. While logging hours on the weekend is typically more associated with overwork than freedom, Hindman says that locking in on a Sunday feels like liberation."
""I'm contributing to my future rest by allocating that time in a way that makes sense," she tells me. By working Sundays, she can justify a mid-morning workout Tuesday class or a long Thursday lunch break to meet up with her friend. The idea of work-life balance, Hindman says, has shifted for her from "working and then clocking out and being done, into work melding and meshing and molding around your life.""
Sundays have become preferred work times for some white-collar workers seeking quiet, interruption-free hours. Working on Sundays lets workers allocate time differently, enabling midweek workouts or long lunches without client conflicts. Digital tools like Slack, email, and Zoom eroded boundaries between work and personal life, and remote work accelerated that blending. Some workers push back by skipping Fridays or enforcing hard afterhours boundaries, while others embrace blurred lines and voluntarily use weekend hours for deep, creative focus. This approach reframes work-life balance from strict separation to flexible melding of work around life. Last year, 5% of US white-collar workers logged on during weekends, a 9% increase from 2023, based on data from over 200,000 workers.
Read at Business Insider
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