Associate Life Survey: Memorial Day Workings
In last Monday's ATL / Lateral Link survey, we asked you whether you worked over Memorial Day Weekend this year.
We received just under 1,400 responses, and 58% of you reported that you took the day off. Associates in San Diego and Philadelphia were most likely to celebrate the holiday, with more than two thirds of respondents in those cities taking the full three-day weekend, while associates in Chicago, Denver, the Bay Area, and Texas were most likely to be working, with roughly half of respondents from those cities logging some billable hours. (Respondents in the Bay Area were also most likely to work over Christmas and New Year's and on Martin Luther King's birthday.)
Of those who spent the day at the office, about 52% reported that they weren't actually asked to work the holiday, but had things they needed to get done, which is roughly the same as what we reported on Martin Luther King's birthday. About a fifth said that partners told them to work on the holiday. About 14% were asked to work by clients. Another 12% said they needed the hours.
Just over two percent of respondents who worked over the holiday weekend, however, said that they "wanted to impress people."
Almost two thirds of respondents who worked on the holiday believed that the work justified the sacrifice.
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Justin Bernold is a Director at Lateral Link, the sponsor of this Associate Life Survey.
(13) Comments
UNREAL - when will all the advertising at this blog stop??? Every post is seemingly sponsored by someone or the other. I think it is fair to say that ATL is now a TTT blog.
Latman, is this what it has come to - maybe you can start a donations page or something where we can contribute to ensure that you don't have to resort to completely and utterly useless posts like the ones that have populated ATL in recent times to raise money for whatever it is that you spend it on.
I like how these posts have hilarious pictures of kitties.
The fact is no one really cares. We are all big girls and boys now. If you need to work you work. You make the decision. This is like asking did you work past 7PM on June 4th? Absolutely no one cares.
FYI I've been lying on these stupid surveys for years. The data es fuckt.
Kobe Bryant didn't work on memorial day
the corporate cat is fat and white...
For those of you who worked on Memorial Day to impress someone, were they impressed?
Why does "Corporate Cat" have a book about entrepreneurialism? I call shennaniganz.
lolcats rule
1:18...no, b/c those someones weren't in the office. d'oh.
1:18, in my case, I think so. While not in the office (as 2:24 mentioned), I made sure to cc them on every email sent. I was cool in high school, I swear.
I billed for the entire weekend. Thats just what I do. I am billing as am I writing this right now.
Stop with the lolcats already, god