Hi Rajah,

I had the same need to bypass the first level approver on the start of the week.  Obviously it's easy to delay X days but I don't think the Forms process can delay until a specified date like we need.

The only solution I could come up with was to call a workflow at the same time that the first level approver task was started.  In workflow it's simple to delay to the following monday at 5pm.  Once the workflow finished it would return and the cancel the PM user task via the an event signal.

While this works it's not really clean.  There are still a number of issues that come up.  Such as the entire approval process could complete leaving the workflow delay still running and the flow open, if payroll rejects and returns to the project manager, etc.  There are solutions to all of these but it does gets messy.  I ended up just going with a hardcoded 5 day delay before escalating. 
 

If you do find a better solution I would be interested in what you did!