Mark Gilbert , Columnist

You Deserve a Three-Day Weekend, Every Weekend

Mondays could use a change.

May 19, 2023 at 2:13 PM UTC

Mark Gilbert is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering asset management. A former London bureau chief for Bloomberg News, he is author of “Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable.”

Crushed by the wheels of industry.
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Last Monday, I worked. This coming Monday, I will also work. In a month when the UK enjoys three four-day weeks, courtesy of public holidays, driving a desk from Monday through Friday feels, well, like something of an imposition.