The Russians are waiting for a six-day work week

In March, the Russians will have a six-day week. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by HeadHunter lawyer, expert in labor law Tatiana Nechaeva.

“In order to rationally use weekends and non-working holidays by employees, days off can be transferred to other days, so in March we will have a shock six-day working week from February 28 to March 5 (a working Saturday, but a pre-holiday day, we work one hour less)”, she noted.

Then, for five-day workers, three days of rest are provided – from March 6 to 8. February 23 is a day off, the working day on February 22 is one hour shorter.

We add that the initiative to reduce the working week to four days was discussed earlier. This statement was made by the current deputy chairman of the Security Council and ex-president of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, when he was head of government. In the summer of 2019, he announced the need to rethink the approach to organizing labor in the country. And later, in February 2021, Medvedev again voiced the same idea, emphasizing that the coronavirus pandemic made it relevant again, and later suggested conducting a similar experiment in certain regions or companies. However, the Ministry of Labor indicated that there are no prerequisites for abandoning the five-day work in Russia now, an alternative mode of work is being introduced in the country – remote employment.

At the same time, as shown by a recent study by the Rabota.ru service, the majority of Russians (78%) agree with the statement that the more days off, the better, they have a positive attitude towards reducing working days to four per week.