Weekend Warriors: It’s No Longer About Working Out
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Intermittently since the beginning of 2021, I have been polling people about whether they plan on working over the coming weekend.
I did it because I noticed my own schedule expanding to do all the things that were necessary to keep up as a coach. I thought other people might be experiencing something similar.
My decidedly unscientific poll asked the question:
Are you planning to work this weekend?
Respondents were offered 3 possible answers– Yes, Maybe, No.
I expected to find that about one-third of respondents would say they were planning to do so.
The people I am connected to and who follow me are primarily white-collar workers and US-based. That may be because of many years, I did not accept connection requests from OUS because I only did US-based search work. A few years ago, I started to change that policy and accepted non-US requests. It is rare that I accept them from parts of Africa known for messaging about how a member of their non-existent national royalty or a member of their military leadership recently died and required assistance with their estate.
On average, I found that between 44% and 58% of respondents planned to vote during the upcoming weekend, greatly exceeding my expectation.
People reported running a networking meeting, software consulting, running a side business, and catching up with pending items.
Whatever they are doing, people are working more weekends than ever before.
ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. His work involves career coaching, as well as executive job search coaching, job coaching, and interview coaching. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 2100 episodes.
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