138: Email on Happy Friday

Today our group received an email from our Floor Partner. He strongly encouraged all staff to leave before 6pm on every Friday in order to enjoy our Happy Friday and achieve work life balance.

I found no reason for not supporting his view and in fact this should have been done a few years earlier. This practice has been in place for many firms and industries. Anyway, doing late is better than not doing.

He also suggest us to work harder on Monday to Thursday and then on Friday we can enjoy the fruit. Yes, we should really work for something and if we can work for it successfully, the whole team will be even more excited, because our hard work have rewards and recognition.

In fact, working hard and for long working hours is not our main concern. Our main concern is whether our hard work, use of personal time for work, and use of our sleeping time for work can get reasonable rewards and recognition. If worked hard and someone treat it as you are supposed to do so and does not recognise and appreciate, we will be very disappointed.

I think this new regime could give us some hope, hoping the situation will keep improving.