Almost 30% of workers look forward to Monday morning, according to a poll of 5,000 jobseekers by reed.co.uk.

The research found that 29% of respondents are completely ambivalent about them, stating that Monday is just another day and just 13% of us truly hate them.

It found that for many Monday is a very positive day to focus on new opportunities, such as getting a new job and statistics showed that Monday lunchtime is the busiest time for logging on to reed.co.uk to hunt for new jobs.  

The poll revealed that Monday mornings could be improved by: a new job (34%), more money (20%) and extra hour in bed (13%). However, only 7% of respondents said that Mondays could only be improved by not having to go to work.

The research found that 17% of respondents said that work didn’t cross their minds over the weekend, 32% said they did think about work but it didn’t ruin their weekends and 32% said that thoughts of work affected their Sunday afternoons and evenings. It found that 8% said work worry meant they had trouble sleeping and 5% even said they think about work all day and all night.

Martin Warnes, operations director at reed.co.uk, says: "It is very interesting that a third of respondents were completely ambivalent to Mondays and this could be linked to the fact that in today’s competitive economic climate many people are working such long hours including the weekends - responding to emails and not switching off their blackberries – for them Monday really is just another day."

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