Plan to work only four days a week in summer in Dubai

Dubai The government has announced reduction of working hours and Friday holiday for 15 government institutions from August 12 to September 30.

This is part of a pilot program being launched by the Dubai Government’s Human Resources Department, which aims to improve employee performance and quality of life.

The government institutions that have been included in this plan will not work on Friday and the remaining four days will also have seven hours of daily work.

Staff were asked to fill out a survey form about summer working hours, with overwhelming support for proposals to reduce working hours in offices in August and September, state news agency Wam reported.

The HR department will review the observations and feedback to make final recommendations on whether to make this pilot scheme a long-term policy for next summer.

Sharjah introduced a four-day weekly work plan in 2022 and thereafter United Arab Emirates In January of the same year, the government had worked four and a half days a week.

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The largest four-day work week experiment took place in the UK in 2022. Later, most of the 61 companies involved in the project pledged to continue the policy, while a third said they were permanently using the new model.

None of the 2,900 people who took part in the trial wanted to return to the five-day-a-week model, and all participating companies reported that their employees had less stress and better health.

Wednesday’s announcement is in addition to a decree issued by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, aimed at making Dubai the world’s best city to live in.

In May, Dubai’s Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum approved a quality of life strategy, including a 300 percent increase in the length of coastal cycling tracks, a 60 percent increase in the length of night swimming beaches and Includes dedicating new beaches for women.

Abdullah Al Falasi, Director General of the Human Resources Department of the Government of Dubai, said: ‘Our aim is to improve the quality of life of employees and increase the sustainability of government resources, making Dubai a preferred city to live and work globally. To help strengthen the position, we are experimenting with a model combining quality of life elements.’