Breaking Down the Leftover 'Working Days'

An obsessive-compulsive numbers meme went viral after a user calculated that while there are roughly 200 calendar days left, there are exactly 148 actual working days remaining in the year when you subtract weekends and major US federal holidays. Corporate workers seized on the statistic to express a different kind of holiday anxiety. Employees joked that they have fewer than 150 daily stand-up meetings left to survive before they can legally turn on their "Out of Office" auto-responders and disappear into a sea of eggnog.