Tuesdays Still Tops For Productivity, But Mondays Gaining

Jan. 13, 2005
By Deborah Austin Rainy days aside, Mondays may be improving for executives seeking peak employee productivity. Tuesdays still reign as the most-productive workday, said 48% of executives in a late-2001 Accountemps survey -- similar to results in 1987 ...
ByDeborah Austin Rainy days aside, Mondays may be improving for executives seeking peak employee productivity. Tuesdays still reign as the most-productive workday, said 48% of executives in a late-2001 Accountemps survey -- similar to results in 1987 and 1998. But 26% percent cited Monday as their employees' most-productive day -- up from 17% in 1998 and 6% in 1987. Monday -- growing as project-launch and "meeting day" -- may seem too hectic to be productive. "But for all those same reasons, it might be considered a very productive day because so much is going on," says Reesa Staten, vice president and director of research programs for Robert Half International, which owns temporary-staffing firm Accountemps, Menlo Park, Calif. Wednesdays are slipping, cited as most productive by only 9% now versus 15% and 19% previously. Thursdays rated 5%, and Fridays -- no surprise -- 1%. Such fluctuations, while normal, may signal workers' need for closer guidance, extra morale boosts or motivation toward week's end, says Max Messmer, Accountemps chairman.

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