diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4242c43..acf6b83 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -69,9 +69,9 @@ Calendars are accessed either via a public ical feed or via google calendar api
 
 #### Determine busyness of individual members of a team
 
-Busyness of team members is calculated by the amount of issues someone is assigned to and which got updated in the past 5 days (not configurable at the moment). Issues updated in this timeframe are taken into account if
+Busyness of team members is calculated by the amount of issues someone is assigned to and which got updated in the past 7 days (not configurable at the moment). Issues updated in this timeframe are taken into account if
 * Open issues: If they don't contain any of the labels which are configured to be ignored. This allows for example to ignore issues which got marked as `stale`
-* Closed issues: If they were closed within the lookback time (5 days).
+* Closed issues: If they were closed within the lookback time (7 days).
 
 The higher this count, the more busy an individual team member is seen compared to other members.  
 
diff --git a/pkg/icassigner/busyness/busyness.go b/pkg/icassigner/busyness/busyness.go
index 2502f67..3a2d72a 100644
--- a/pkg/icassigner/busyness/busyness.go
+++ b/pkg/icassigner/busyness/busyness.go
@@ -63,12 +63,7 @@ func CalculateBusynessForTeam(ctx context.Context, now time.Time, githubClient *
 }
 
 func calculateBusynessForTeam(ctx context.Context, now time.Time, bA busynessClient, members []string) Report {
-	// calculate lookback time. If we are on a time shortly after the weekend we'll extend to lookback by 2 days to account for weekends
-	// TODO: Should this be configurable?
-	since := now.Add(-5 * 24 * time.Hour)
-	if since.Weekday() == time.Saturday || since.Weekday() == time.Sunday {
-		since = since.Add(-2 * 24 * time.Hour)
-	}
+	since := now.Add(-7 * 24 * time.Hour)
 
 	addMember := func(b map[int][]string, m string, busyness int) {
 		v, ok := b[busyness]