New Delhi: The official working week in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is now being reduced to 4.5 days. And the weekend is being on Saturday and Sunday, the objective behind this is to improve the competition. The national working week will be mandatory in all government units from January 1 and Friday will be a full-day holiday for Muslim prayers based on regional norms.
The resource-rich and ambitious UAE has now become the only Gulf country where the weekend will not be on Friday and Saturday. At the same time, it has also joined the list of the non-Arab world. Under the new schedule, the weekend in the public sector will now start on Friday afternoon and end on Sunday. The Friday prayers in mosques will be held at 1.15 minutes throughout the year.
Working week in UAE now less than 5 days
According to the news published in NDTV India, the UAE has taken this step to keep pace with the global market. In this way, his working week will be the shortest in the world. The UAE has thus become the first country in the world to initiate the process of shortening the national working week from the five-day working week. Prior to this, until 2006, the weekend was Thursday-Friday in the UAE, then it was Friday-Saturday according to the private sector.
According to the report, the purpose of the UAE government behind the extension of the weekend is to establish and improve the balance between work- and social life. So that there can be a qualitative increase in the economic competitiveness of the UAE.
From an economic perspective, the new working week will help the UAE better align itself with the global market. This will facilitate trade, economic transactions with those countries which consider Saturday-Sunday as a weekend. This decision of the UAE is another bold step. Which is being openly supported on social media.
