Hump Day is Humming

(Image from Reader's Digest)

The explosion in working from home during part of the week, aka "hybrid work", has resulted in Wednesday being cities' busiest day.

Commuter rail lines in cities like Boston and San Francisco found Wednesday typically the busiest weekday in April. The same is true of hotel occupancy in many big cities, a sign salespeople know that is the day they’re likeliest to find contacts in the office, said Jan Freitag, director of hospitality analytics at CoStar Group Inc.

An average of 46% of U.S. office workers went to work on Wednesdays in March, said Kastle Systems, a security firm that monitors access-card swipes. That trounced Monday’s meager 35%...

The critical mass of workers on Wednesday can be self-reinforcing, some managers suggest. Employees say they like office socialization, so it makes sense to go in on the day you think the most other people will.

As a retired boomer, I've generally refrained from telling the young 'uns how tough I had it commuting for two hours, wearing a coat and tie every day, and counting myself lucky if I didn't have to go in on Saturday.

But c'mon man, Wednesday's are tough because you can't get a lunch reservation? I wasn't concerned about climate change or the national debt, but now I'm worried about America's future.