The UAE Government is to adopt a new four and a half day working week, effective\nfrom January 1, 2022. The move applies to Federal government entities and comes\nalongside new working hours, with Monday to Thursday workdays now starting at\n7.30am and ending at 3.30pm and Friday working hours from 7.30am-12.00pm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alongside the move, Friday sermons and prayers across the Emirates will\nbe held from 1.15pm. Government staff will have the flexibility to make\narrangements to work from home on Fridays, as well as to arrange their working\nhours on a flexi-time basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Emirates is the first nation in the world to introduce a national\nworking week shorter than the global five-day week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The extended weekend comes as part of the UAE government\u2019s efforts to\nboost work-life balance and enhance social wellbeing, while increasing performance\nto advance the UAE\u2019s economic competitiveness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adopting an agile working system will enable the UAE to rapidly\nrespond to emerging changes and enhance wellbeing in the workplace. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n From an economic perspective, the new working week will better align the\nEmirates with global markets, reflecting\nthe country\u2019s strategic status on the global economic map. It will ensure\nsmooth financial, trade and economic transactions with countries that follow a Saturday\/Sunday\nweekend, facilitating stronger international business links and opportunities for\nthousands of UAE-based and multinational companies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The new working week\nwill also bring the\nUAE\u2019s financial sector into closer alignment with global real-time trading and communications-based\ntransactions such as those driving global stock markets, banks and financial\ninstitutions. The move is expected to boost not only trading opportunities but\nalso add to the flexible, secure and enjoyable lifestyle the Emirates offers\nits citizens and residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Federal Authority for Government Human Resources proposed the new workweek following comprehensive benchmarking and feasibility studies reflecting potential impacts of the move on the economy, on social and family ties and on the overall wellbeing of people in the Emirates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The UAE Government is to adopt a new four and a half day working week, effective from January 1, 2022. The move applies to Federal government entities and comes alongside new working hours, with Monday to Thursday workdays now starting at 7.30am and ending at 3.30pm and Friday working hours from 7.30am-12.00pm. Alongside the move, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40836,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40820\/revisions\/40836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"