Three days weekend would be great.
Alternatively last day of the five days week may be termed as half day so the office will be closed on Thrudsay at 1330 PM. The reason to put 1330 is that people still could take prayer and lunch break for half an hour, so effectively it woudl be 1300 closing but office buses would leave 1330. It also make sure that people dont pack up early.
Besides office timing may be brought earlier to ensure people wake up early and could go back home in sunlight so effectively using most of the natural free sunlight. Therefore School may start at 730 AM, Govt offices at 0800 AM, Banks and Private Offices at 830 AM. The closing time of Govt Offices would be at 4 PM, Banks and Private Offices at 0430 PM.
References:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/feb/22/four-day-week-less-is-more
Back in 1970, an American management consultant called Riva Poor wrote a book advocating a revolution in work and leisure called 4 Days, 40 Hours. It caused a stir at the time, arguing that great benefits would flow from taking a longer weekend and working fewer but longer days. Then the issue went away. Quietly, though, a four-day week became a common option for public employees at city and county level. As a public administrator, Huntsman knew this, and he saw the opportunity to go further.
ust weeks ago, Gambia announced a four-day week for public sector workers – not through economic necessity, but to allow more time for “prayer and farming”. In Ghana there are calls to follow Gambia’s example, to allow time for attending funerals on a Friday.
Yet mention shorter hours in Europe and people tend to think of the French 35-hour week, written off as a failure and largely repealed by former president Nicolas Sarkozy. Never mind that many French businesses kept their shorter week in spite of the change in the law – or that, quietly, over the last couple of decades, working less has also become the norm in the Netherlands. The Dutch seem to have found answers to all the practical problems that might come up. As in Utah, the public sector led the way in response to recession, this time in the early 1990s, by hiring new staff on 80% contracts.
Job-sharing in health and education is now standard. There are part-time bankers, surgeons and engineers. One in three Dutch men either works part-time or compresses his hours, as in Utah, introducing the term “daddy days” to the language. Many more women – three-quarters – work part-time. Polling suggests that almost all Dutch part-time workers do not want to increase their hours. The approach, backed by decent state childcare provision, allows for high levels of female employment.
The Gambia has started a four-day week for public sector workers, with Fridays now an extra day off.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-21280766
Alternatively last day of the five days week may be termed as half day so the office will be closed on Thrudsay at 1330 PM. The reason to put 1330 is that people still could take prayer and lunch break for half an hour, so effectively it woudl be 1300 closing but office buses would leave 1330. It also make sure that people dont pack up early.
Besides office timing may be brought earlier to ensure people wake up early and could go back home in sunlight so effectively using most of the natural free sunlight. Therefore School may start at 730 AM, Govt offices at 0800 AM, Banks and Private Offices at 830 AM. The closing time of Govt Offices would be at 4 PM, Banks and Private Offices at 0430 PM.
References:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/feb/22/four-day-week-less-is-more
Back in 1970, an American management consultant called Riva Poor wrote a book advocating a revolution in work and leisure called 4 Days, 40 Hours. It caused a stir at the time, arguing that great benefits would flow from taking a longer weekend and working fewer but longer days. Then the issue went away. Quietly, though, a four-day week became a common option for public employees at city and county level. As a public administrator, Huntsman knew this, and he saw the opportunity to go further.
ust weeks ago, Gambia announced a four-day week for public sector workers – not through economic necessity, but to allow more time for “prayer and farming”. In Ghana there are calls to follow Gambia’s example, to allow time for attending funerals on a Friday.
Yet mention shorter hours in Europe and people tend to think of the French 35-hour week, written off as a failure and largely repealed by former president Nicolas Sarkozy. Never mind that many French businesses kept their shorter week in spite of the change in the law – or that, quietly, over the last couple of decades, working less has also become the norm in the Netherlands. The Dutch seem to have found answers to all the practical problems that might come up. As in Utah, the public sector led the way in response to recession, this time in the early 1990s, by hiring new staff on 80% contracts.
Job-sharing in health and education is now standard. There are part-time bankers, surgeons and engineers. One in three Dutch men either works part-time or compresses his hours, as in Utah, introducing the term “daddy days” to the language. Many more women – three-quarters – work part-time. Polling suggests that almost all Dutch part-time workers do not want to increase their hours. The approach, backed by decent state childcare provision, allows for high levels of female employment.
The Gambia has started a four-day week for public sector workers, with Fridays now an extra day off.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-21280766
