Palace awaits recommendation on 4-day work week 0 SHARES Share it! House Minority Leader Benny Abante Jr. earlier proposed that non-frontline government agencies along EDSA should implement a four-day work week during the holiday season to help ease traffic congestion. In a press conference, Abante appealed to the Palace to study his proposal, saying even tech giant Microsoft experimented with a four-day work week in one of its subsidiaries in Japan, and they discovered that this led to a 40 percent boost in productivity. House Bill 1670 removes the limiting “normal work hours” of eight hours per day as long as employees would complete the required 48 hours of work per week. House Bill 1904, on the other hand, aims for a compressed work arrangement by reducing the normal work week to less than six days but retains the total 48 hours of work per week.

Source: Manila Bulletin November 14, 2019 05:55 UTC