January Blues
The most depressing day of the year is "officially" today, January 24th according to a recent post on The T&D Blog, citing research from Cardiff University. Seems that bad weather, all of that holiday debt, failed New Year's resolutions and the like lead to the doldrums, which peak on January 24th. All of this can lead to an increase in employee absenteeism. Notwithstanding the fact that it was about 60 degrees here in NY this weekend, I suppose that by about this time, we've fallen off of our diet and exercise plans, and the credit card bills have arrived. Look at it this way, there are only about eight and a half weeks until spring!
Good one! The weather has been great so that totally helps! When I lived in Prague it was so dark and grey so many days in the winter that there was a restaurant called The Light and they had installed those SAD lamps at each of the tables!! You could eat and get some light at the same time.