They’re worse than Sundays. And who asked us if we wanted bank holidays? I deliberately chose to not go into banking in order to escape these wretched days off but, nooooooo, we have to have them and we have to keep on having them. Bastards.

I sense you’re not with me here.

So how’s this? It appears that you will do more work in the run up to and the return from a three-day weekend. It’s not a shock but it’s now official – a bit. Kinda. Here’s a US report on the volume of emails that will be sent this weekend: it’s Memorial Day in the States on Monday but for once both sides of the Atlantic have a day off so this is relevant to us both.

More emails are sent in the days leading up to and following a three-day weekend holiday to compensate for time off,” says Anna Holschuh, an engineer at Yesware, an email tracking software provider. “So instead of actually doing less work, we’re just cramming it into fewer hours.”

[But[ Your inbox won’t be as full over the holiday weekend. The Yesware study found that people send 40% less emails on holiday Mondays than regular Mondays, and 5% fewer emails over the weekend.

The Good (And Bad) News About Three-Day Weekends – Stephanie Vozza, Fast Company (22 May 2015)

Read the full piece.