Are people actually lazy on Fridays?

We love looking at Hive data to draw conclusions about how to drive great teamwork. This week, we wanted to know whether the old belief that Fridays are a slow day was actually true.

And here’s the answer. We took a sample of 300,000 updates to Hive actions and broke them out by the day of the week they happened on:

It’s pretty interesting. As you can see, after slow Monday mornings, productivity steadily increases to the middle of the week, before tailing off hard.

People are a full 15% less productive on Fridays than Wednesdays.

What can we learn from this? Well, as a team leader, you might think about ways to drive high motivation on Fridays to finish the week strong. That extra 15% could be just the boost your team needs.

Curious to hear whether you do anything differently in your team on Fridays. I’m sure there’s lots of tips!

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Thanks!

John