{"id":107619,"date":"2021-12-08T17:01:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T22:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=107619"},"modified":"2021-12-08T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T23:10:09","slug":"npr-the-uae-is-adopting-a-4-5-day-workweek-and-a-saturday-sunday-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=107619","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) The UAE is adopting a 4.5-day workweek and a Saturday-Sunday weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates just announced some big changes to its work schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The Gulf nation is transitioning to a 4.5-day workweek, with weekends to consist of Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s significant for two reasons: It likely makes the UAE the first nation to formalize a workweek shorter than five days, and it also brings the country more in line with Western schedules. Up until now, the UAE has had a Friday-Saturday weekend, which is the standard in many predominantly Muslim countries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/12\/08\/1062435944\/uae-work-week-change-saturday-sunday-weekends-global-markets\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The United Arab Emirates is transitioning to a 4-and-a-half day workweek aimed at enhancing social wellbeing. The change likely makes it the first nation to formalize a workweek shorter than 5 days.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aNMC9ObAIY\">https:\/\/t.co\/aNMC9ObAIY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NPR (@NPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NPR\/status\/1468672256415088659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates just announced some big changes to its work schedule. The Gulf nation is transitioning to a 4.5-day workweek, with weekends to consist of Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday. That&#8217;s significant for two reasons: It likely makes<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=107619\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,597,562,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-uae-united-arab-emirates","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107621,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107619\/revisions\/107621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}