Summer Fridays? Try Year-Round Fridays

Summer Fridays aren’t just a seasonal perk anymore. For many, skipping the office on Fridays is the new normal.

Envoy’s workplace data from January through April of both 2024 and 2025 reveals a clear, consistent pattern: Friday is the least popular day to be in the office. In 2025, just 14.4% of weekly foot traffic occurred on Fridays. That’s a sharp contrast to peak midweek days like Wednesday (21.46%) and Tuesday (21.19%). The story was nearly identical in 2024, showing that this isn’t a new trend. It’s an entrenched behavior.

Fridays Called—They’re Out of Office

Hybrid work expectations are reshaping the workweek. While Mondays and Thursdays hold steady, Fridays have largely dropped off the map. The data tells the story:

• Fridays hovered around 14% of all weekly office visits
• Midweek peaks (Tues/Wed) consistently drew more than 21% 
• The Friday before Memorial Day 2025 saw an even more dramatic dip, a 9.29% drop from the previous Friday, signaling that long weekends are increasingly seen as opportunities to unplug early.

What Fewer Fridays in the Office Really Means

As we head into summer 2025, it’s clear that hybrid flexibility is expanding, especially around long weekends. People leaders are taking note and reconsidering how they structure in-office expectations. Is Friday engagement a lost cause? Or just ready for reinvention?

The focus is shifting from enforcing presence to enabling purpose. Whether that means planning collaboration-heavy days earlier in the week or reserving Fridays for deep work from anywhere, the goal is the same: make office time count.

We’ll continue to watch the trends and what they reveal about the future of work.

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