To help ensure that you’re up-to-date on everything your employees might be celebrating this month, here’s a handy list of the most important observances:

Month-long Celebrations

• Watch College Basketball Non-stop and Ignore Your Spouse, Kids and Job Month
• Adopt a Rescued Guinea Pig Month
• National Frozen Food Month
• National Play the Recorder Month
• National On-hold Month
• International Mirth Month

 Weekly Celebrations

• Universal Human Beings Week (1-7)
• National Return Borrowed Books Week (1-7) 
• National Sleep Awareness Week (3-9)
• National Procrastination Week (3-9)
• National Act Happy Week (17-23)
• Egg Salad Week (24-30)
• Root Canal Awareness Week (30- Apr. 5)

Daily Observances.  Unfortunately, we already missed Beer Day (March 1) and National Pig Day (March 1).  Be sure not to miss:

• National “What If Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs?” Day (3)
• Daylight Savings Day (9), followed immediately by Nap Day (10)
• National Open an Umbrella Indoors Day (13)
• Celebrate Pi (3.141592, etc.) Day (14)
• Lips Appreciation Day (16)
• Awkward Moments Day (18)
• International Goof Off Day (22)
• Make Up Your Own Holiday Day (26)
• Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day (27)
• The Grass Is Always Browner on the Other Side of the Fence Day (30)

What this means for employers.  If your employees suddenly start playing the recorder, putting everyone on hold, repeatedly opening umbrellas indoors, acting strangely happy, napping, procrastinating, goofing off, memorizing multi-digit fractional numbers, appreciating their lips, celebrating root canals, and making up new holidays, all while singing country songs like “All My Ex-es Live in Texas,” adopting homeless guinea pigs and endlessly contemplating their other pets’ lack of opposable thumbs, now you know why.

Enjoy the month!

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