If you lead a team, department or organisation and you’re interested in employee wellbeing, there are steps you can take to reduce your team’s risk of experiencing Sunday blues. 

• Talk to your team about their Friday and Monday schedules. There might be some “easy wins” here: small changes you can make that will improve your colleagues’ weekends. 
• Offer a protected Friday afternoon, department- or company-wide. People often feel awkward about protecting their time to complete unfinished tasks if they’re the only ones doing it.
• Does that big, stressful department-wide meeting really have to be held on a Monday? Can you move it to later in the week? 
• If there are meetings that absolutely have to be held on a Monday, is there anything you can do to make them less stressful? Can you change the meeting to a quick catch-up that doesn’t require preparation? 
• For our research, we spoke to people at all levels of seniority, with a wide range of working backgrounds and experiences. One of the most common causes of Sunday blues was the workplace culture they experienced: if their line managers and department heads had few work/life boundaries, they felt under pressure to work in the same way, and their work worries often bled into their off-work time. Think about how you put boundaries in place, and how you communicate these to your team.