Bare Minimum Mondays, Rage Applying, and Quiet Quitting are TikTok work trends that are being applied in some workplaces globally, according to CNBC. If you doubted the influence of this social media platform, this might be a time to catch on, especially if you intend to keep your workforce happy and, um, working.

These viral catchphrases intend to mark a movement prioritizing health over mental well-being to create a better balance, says LinkedIn career expert Andrew McCaskill. Employers have even started incorporating these phrases into their vernacular to cultivate happiness and understanding in the workplace. One worker amusingly recounted a time when her manager wished her a “Happy Bare Minimum Monday,” explains the article.

HR is in on it too. “Quiet quitting,” where employees choose to mentally check out instead of resigning from their jobs, is something they’ve been watching out for. CEO of Twomentor (an HR and leadership consultancy) Julie Kantor says that she has advised managers of Fortune 500 companies on trends or signs that might indicate that their employees are nearing burnout and might opt to quietly quit.

How can we embrace these new trends today? Kantor suggests ensuring that meeting with staff should include some time to touch base with them on a personal level and to inquire whether they need your support or guidance. Also, incorporating the Bare Minimum Mondays (where staff choose to work on a small number of tasks and reserve the harder, longer ones for later in the week) has some benefits such as avoiding midweek burnouts and ensuring better quality work.

Game of Thrones fans could be seeing three animated series from George R. R. Martin’s pantheon shares the author in a blog post. Two of the series will be based on the Song of Ice and Fire, he disclosed, after singing the praises of BlueEyeSamurai which he described as having “the most gorgeous art that I have ever seen. The story is terrific as well. […] it is violent, visceral, sexy […] with amazing action sequences and a cast of well-developed characters, colorful and complex and real.”

Sea Snake is a third project that will probably be animated into a series titled Nine Voyages, which he explains would be best for the nature of the series as it is mostly at sea and in ports — a costly venture if it were a live-action production. But hold your horses, Martin does not say that these animated series will see the light of day yet, but HBO and the author extraordinaire have started working on it “a few years back,” and with Hollywood’s unpredictability, it is hard to tell whether it will be aired or not.

While you wait, you can see what Martin was talking about by watching Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix.

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