Mondays for me. I like having two days of weekend and then a day where I can get stuff done. Sunday is a bad day to get stuff done since so many things are closed or have short hours, and I like my “get stuff done” day to be after my rest days.
I have worked Tuesday through Saturday for the last several years. I like having a week day off because it makes it easy to deal with things (Banking, Dentist, Doctor, Vet, Post Office, etc, etc) because I have all day Monday for that and don’t have to take time off from work to get that stuff done. And since I get holiday pay regardless of whether it was my scheduled work day, this year Memorial Day, Labor Day and the 4th were all extra pay days that I didn’t have to work anyway.
That and most family stuff tends to be on Sundays, whereas…
On a previous job, I worked second shift, Saturday through Wednesday, with Thursday and Friday off. Could still go out all night on friday, sleep late and get to work just fine. But I missed a lot of family stuff on Sundays because I had to go to work in the middle of the afternoon.
Based on the OP it really doesn’t matter - the entire office is going to be closed on whatever day is chosen so everyone is going to develop the same Oh gosh it’s the start of the week on Tuesday or Yay the weekend is here attitude on Thursday. So from an office atmosphere or work perspective it’s a wash.
It seems the real difference if you’re an extrovert is in if you’d prefer to spend Friday preparing for the social events of the weekend or Monday recovering from them.
If you’re an introvert it really doesn’t matter because it’s just another day of peace either way 
Looks like the point is moot, anyway. I got a job offer today and accepted and put in my notice. Woo hoo for working 5 days a week and paying the bills!! 
Fridays, because so many things are closed on Mondays <rather than Sundays>
congratulations!! :D:D I’ve only had two jobs that were Monday through Friday type hours, and boy do I appreciate them. Four ten-hour days with Wednesdays off is still my preference; just…doesn’t ever happen. 
Mondays. People slack a bit Friday afternoon as it is.
Fridays are always good days. Mondays are bad days. I’d rather have Monday off
I have worked a 4-day-a-week schedule for years, and have done both. Mondays are better; in my case because emergencies develop over the week, not the weekend, so I’m less likely to have to sacrifice my day off if it’s a Monday than a Friday.
Amusingly, I work in a (very) large group, and people I have worked closely with for years are sometimes surprised to learn I don’t work (most) Mondays. So apparently, nobody’s awake yet on Monday, anyway.
I said Friday because I currently have Mondays off (work Tues - Sat, too). There are certain businesses I would patronize except that they don’t have Monday hours. (Hair dressers, local yarn shop - everything else gets done easily) It doesn’t matter to me which weekday it is, but having a weekday off is good, especially if you ever shop at places like IKEA or Costco.
Booyah. When I worked a four day week many years ago, I took Weds off. Twas awesome.
But given the proposed either/or, Monday.
Do it Wednesday! Honestly, everyone hates wednesdays, and it would give us one day off in the middle of the week. I would love that!
At this point in my life, Mondays would work better. Some weekends are so tiring with all the family stuff that we do, that I go to work on Monday feeling no more rested than when I left on Friday. I could have Monday to recover from the weekend while my kids are in camp and my husband is at work.
That said, the fact that so many holidays fall on Mondays would make me feel pretty ripped off if that was what my schedule actually was.
Congrats on the new job, Alice.
Thanks, Taomist and** Lorene**!
I voted Fridays, and I’m speaking from experience. I work a four-day week, which has changed several times over the past 10 years between Tue-Fri and Mon-Thu.
I currently have Mondays off, which is nice - you have that extra day to relax or get stuff done after a busy weekend - but I work late on Fridays so I can’t go out and do fun stuff on Friday nights. Sure, I can stay out late and party on Sunday nights, but nobody else wants to.
I much preferred having Fridays off.
Actually that would be a great idea - split the difference sort of. I can remember when I worked weekends and was given my choice of days off I went with Tuesday/Wednesday because it seems that most holidays are on mondays, so I would still get a 3 day weekend off =) And it was great having 2 days to run errands, and tuesdays was when WoW did its updates, so I was generally one of the first people to log in and get screwed over by the bugs
I have worked a 4-10 schedule with Fridays off since 1996. Since I work for the government, I still get my paid holidays and if a holiday falls on my day off, I just have Thursday off, too.
I have also worked a schedule that resulted in every other Monday off.
I much prefer Mondays off. I would switch back, except I think my boss would just deny my request and maybe make me work 5 days a week again just because.
Because these type of flex schedules are so common where I work, we don’t usually schedule meetings or training on Mondays or Fridays. Tuesdays tend to meeting days at my office because that’s when everyone is most likely to be available and heaven forfend you are not there to make sure you don’t get volunteered for something (last staff meeting I missed was the one were my boss broached the idea of potluck and movie day as a morale booster…I will rue missing that meeting for another week).
Benefits on to taking Mondays off include not dealing with all the people who had all weekend to ramp up about whatever they are pissed off about and not being at work with all the other people who hate Mondays.
Lots of people leave early on Fridays, making it prime time to get things accomplished without interruption.
Around here, many dentists office are closed on Fridays for some reason…
I do the Wednesday thing, and it’s nice. I have a bit of a tendency to run myself into the ground, so it’s nice to have that recovery time. The other benefits are that traffic is usually worst in the middle of the week, because fewer people take those days off than Mondays and Fridays. It also makes doing errands and making appointments easier for the same reason. And, of course, one of the best kept secrets is that whenever there’s a holiday, not only do they seldom line up with the day off, since many are only observed on Mondays, and all with a strict date get observed twice as much on Fridays and Mondays because of weekends, it means that you can get either a nicely broken up week, or take just one vacation day and get 5 days off, which is a nice mini-vacation.
That said, it doesn’t really matter too much which day you take off. Sure, missing Mondays means you don’t have to dread mondays, but then your Tuesdays become your Mondays. Or if you take Fridays your Thursdays become your new Fridays. Instead, consider how your office works and judge based on that. For instance, where I am, people usually take off early Fridays, and since I feel like I get a lot of work done when there’s fewer people here, I like working Fridays. OTOH, if you need to work with or get in contact with other people, taking Fridays off makes sense since it will have the least impact on that. In a lot of places there’s meetings and prep-work and catchup stuff to do on Mondays. It might be nice to miss it, but if it’s necessary, missing it could just put you behind trying to catch up all week. Either way, you end up with 4 work days in a row and 3 days off, so especially if your whole office does it, you’re really just moving various aspects around.
Anyway, since there’s no option for Wednesday, I voted Monday because it’s nice and quiet here on Fridays and I get tons of stuff done. However, when I used to do helpdesk work, I did Fridays precisely because I couldn’t get anything done since so many people were off or leaving early.
Mondays. Seems there’s always something I remember I need to do late in the weekend where it would help if banks, the post office, the library, etc. were open. Ending the weekend with a day when everything’s open would work much better for me than ending it on a day when a lot of stuff is closed.
I looked at it from the point of view I have today - I prefer Fridays off to Mondays off. I think of it as this way - by the time Monday rolls around, I’ve already had two days off so it’s just another day off similar to two that I just had. If I take of Friday, hey, surprise! The week’s already over! So I tend to enjoy Fridays off more.