Update (April 2008):
It’s now almost two years that we have not updated the design and major features of this web site. We are currently working on a completely new “Duvet-Dayz” web site for you and during the next weeks (May 2008) we will make those available and extend current features with some - we hope - very useful ones for you.
Many thanks again to all of you for continuously stopping by and coming back after we stopped publishing new posts for 3 months last year. We are now back in the top 100,000 web sites worldwide but still far below where we have been in 2006. We’re working on it.
Well what’s in a name. When you search the web for the term Duvet-Days you get a fair bit of ranting on the concept or how its understood. I really like the quote from Ruth Lea (UK Institute of Directors:..It’s absolutely bonkers. It panders to people’s weaknesses…).
At best you will find something like this as a general definition:
BBC e-cyclopedia:
Duvet-Days, n, buzzword; a day when employees have the right to stay in bed instead of going in to work, no prior booking required.
The Phrase Finder:
Meaning:
A paid day’s work in which the employee is allowed to stay at home for rest and relaxation.
Origin:
This is a UK phrase that originated from workplace practice began in the 1960s there and in the USA. The first recorded reference to it is in September 1996 when The Financial Times reported…
Urban Dictionary:
Duvet Day, When one takes the whole day to relax in the comfort of a duvet, whilst beating their meat and two veg.
“I persuaded my boss that I was ill, so I took a duvet day. I’m going to use the sick pay to buy more lube“
Anyway (and we hope you made it reading this far) we see Duvet-Days more like these long weekends when you finally find the time to read that book, flip through magazines during a breakfast or just spend the whole afternoon on the web browsing around for new things.
We want to do some work for you to find those beautiful things, the latest stories or other interesting information so that you can have a bit of it everyday. You might even enjoy it at work…
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