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2ND DEC 2008
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 What is Freeday Friday?
2008 is a leap year, with the extra day that gets added to the end of February falling on a Friday this year.
This day, Friday February 29th February, has become Freeday Friday.
Freeday Friday is a national day of leisure which is yours to do with whatever you want. In the time pressed, stressed, overworked modern world we live in Freeday Friday is everyone’s chance to stop, take a moment and appreciate all that you have. You lucky blighter you.
It is not a day for work and after all, why should it be?
You don’t get paid for it, so why should you give someone a day’s labour for free? Freeday Friday is not for profit day, it is a free day in every sense of the word.
Companies bang on ad infinitum about the importance of work/life balance yet when it comes to the crunch do very little or nothing about it. Freeday Friday is a chance to show they do take the issue of work/life balance seriously.
www.Freedayfriday.com
The website Freedayfriday.com has a whole host of information and ideas about how you and your company can get involved. You can download an email or letter that other employees can add their names to and then send to the chairman of your company to find out how they plan to celebrate February the 29th. Click here to download the letter.
There’s also posters you can pin up at work in support.
We’re launching a Freeday Friday song to help spread the word. It’s called “Are You Having It Off?”
Government petitions and Facebook
While the immediate concern of Freeday Friday is February 29th 2008, we reckon the idea of a Freeday should become a once every four yearly bank holiday. Once every 4 years isn’t too much to ask is it – it’s only 0.0016% of the total working days for jiminy cricket’s sake.
Sign a government petition or join the Orkut or facebook group.
Are people really taking Freeday Friday off or is it just a bit of a joke?
How much of a success it becomes it up to you. Freeday Friday is just a small victory which redresses the balance between work and play. Taking it off is not a big deal, but it’s in your hands. It won’t take itself off.
Provided by The Student Zone (United Kingdom) |
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