Schedule task on the first workday of the month - php

Question

I've currently got a task that collects usage statistics from my website and is set to automatically email them to the client.
The problem is that the 1st of the month may be a non-work day which I guess is not a disaster but looks a bit unprofessional.
This is how I've scheduled it currently:
$schedule
->command("report", [ "--email" => "example#example.com" ]) //My command which accepts the email as a parameter
->monthly();
I was thinking of doing the following:
$schedule
->command("report", [ "--email" => "example#example.com" ]) //My command which accepts the email as a parameter
->monthlyOn(1)
->when(function () {
if (in_array(Carbon::now()->dayOfWeek,[Carbon::SATURDAY,Carbon::SUNDAY])) {
return false;
}
return true;
});
$schedule
->command("report", [ "--email" => "example#example.com" ]) //My command which accepts the email as a parameter
->monthlyOn(2)
->when(function () {
if (Carbon::now()->dayOfWeek == Carbon::MONDAY) {
return true; //1st was in the weekend
}
return false;
});
$schedule
->command("report", [ "--email" => "example#example.com" ]) //My command which accepts the email as a parameter
->monthlyOn(3)
->when(function () {
if (Carbon::now()->dayOfWeek == Carbon::MONDAY) {
return true; //1st and 2nd was in the weekend
}
return false;
});
However this looks like a very strange thing to do for something as simple as that.
So my questions:
If a when condition fails, does the task get attempted again until it succeeds? (Assuming this is a no but not sure)
Is there a simpler way to run a task on the first work-day of the month?

Answer 1

I'll post this as a community wiki answer for others to utilise if they ever need to in the future:
You can put the condition into the actual crontab command:
[ "$(date '+%a')" = "Mon" ] && echo "It's Monday"
Now, if this
condition is true on one of the first seven days in a month, you have
its first Monday. Note that in the crontab, the percent-syntax needs
to be escaped though:
0 12 1-7 * * [ "$(date '+\%a')" = "Mon" ] && echo "It's Monday"
the above is referenced from: https://superuser.com/questions/428807/run-a-cron-job-on-the-first-monday-of-every-month
This way it's set to a cronjob which will only run once per month on the Monday. I believe this will be your most effective method to achieve what you're trying to do.

Answer 2

I know the accepted answer is correct but, there are always different ways I prefer this:
->monthlyOn(Carbon::parse('first monday of this month')->format('d'), '5:00')