Summer Fridays

Before moving to Los Angeles, I had never heard of the concept of "Summer Fridays," but when Janet & I got jobs out here, those two innocuous little words popped up in the HR documentation from both of our respective employers. Summer Fridays are apparently very common in the advertising & creative industries in LA & NY, and are described as such:

In the summer weeks between Memorial Day and Labor Day, employees are free to leave the office on Fridays at 2 p.m. (or 1 p.m. in Janet's case), provided they don't have any urgent outstanding work issues.

Of course, these hours are probably made up elsewhere by late night product launches and weekend advertising "emergencies," but it's pretty amazing that employers recognize the immeasurable morale benefit in freeing the drones to enjoy a sunny Friday afternoon drinking beer on a patio somewhere instead of cleaning out their email and re-reading old blog posts in the dim fluorescent flicker of the cubicle farm. That's the way the world is supposed to work. Yeah.