Working five or six days a week,sometimes create stress on a person’s mind and body. This will ultimately leadto various diseases. Everyone wishes for a long weekend to relax them from ahectic schedule.
What if we tell you that only working forfour and a half days in a week is good enough??
Yes, you heard it right. United Arab Emiratesgovernment has made this dream come true for the people residing in theircountry. People will get a full weekend i.e., with Friday afternoon, Saturday,and Sunday forming the new weekend.
With this move, UAE has become the firstnation to implement such rule for their employees. The working week will starton Monday and end by Friday afternoon. On Friday, employees will work foronly 4.5 hours. Not only this, but On Fridays, employees, will also be allowedto choose flexible work or work-from-home options.
They wrote on their Twitter handle, “#UAEannounces today that it will transition to a four and a half-day working week,with Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday forming the new weekend. All Federalgovernment departments will move to the new weekend from January 1, 2022.”