"The 66-year-old multimillionaire revealed he's ditched the traditional workweek and the hectic lifestyle of working almost 20 hours a day while running shows like The X Factor- and Cowell's enjoying his newfound work-life balance so much that he's evangelizing everyone else to switch to a four-day week too. "Actually, the first thing is take off Fridays. Don't work on Fridays, because you don't have to," the 'America's Got Talent' creator told the British newspaper -and has more recently reiterated in podcast."
"Now his Fridays are filled with entertaining his son Eric, by doing the likes of driving "25 miles to buy a Pokemon card." After decades of hustling, Cowell also revealed, he has a few nonnegotiable habits in place to maintain his work-life balance. "Eat dinner at five o'clock. Don't take calls after 5:30. Don't read emails after 5:30. Watch a happy movie. And stay outside," he added."
"Although Cowell didn't divulge why he thinks working on a Friday is "pointless"-as opposed to, say, working on a Monday-research shows most people are either working from home or avoiding work entirely on the last working day of the traditional workweek. Millions of workers have been ordered back to the office post-pandemic, with even the staunchest promoters of remote working like Meta and Zoom enforcing in-person working. But Fridays are rarely included in these RTO mandates."
Simon Cowell has abandoned the five-day workweek and now routinely takes Fridays off while advocating a four-day week. He previously worked nearly 20-hour days running shows like The X Factor and America's Got Talent. Fridays are now devoted to family time, including outings with his son Eric such as driving 25 miles to buy a Pokemon card. Cowell enforces clear boundaries: eat dinner at five, avoid calls and emails after 5:30, watch uplifting movies, and spend time outside. Research shows many people avoid work on Fridays, and post-pandemic return-to-office mandates often exclude Fridays.
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