New office timings
The recent change in office timings is a good initiative taken by the government primarily to ease traffic congestion in Dhaka city.
Even though it may be too early to comment on the effectiveness of the government initiative, a couple of suggestions, the implementation of which, may yield better results.
Commercial organisations: The timing set is from 10.00am to 6.00pm. Commercial organisations work on the "profit motive" and as such, the longer the hours for them, the better they would be and better would be the economy of the country.
Forcing commercial organisations to start work at 10.00am is, on the one hand, stepping into their space of freedom and also cutting them off from countries which are on the East of Bangladesh, by another effective hour.
Monitoring of the timings by the government whether the commercial organisations are adhering to the government directive or not, is also difficult. Thus commercial organisations may keep on following the earlier timing of 9.00am and closing whenever the work finishes.
We would, therefore, have both government officials and most of commercial organistions going to office at the same time, negating the effectiveness of the change for easing traffic congestion. Commercial organizations should, therefore, in my opinion, follow 9.00am to 5.00pm office timing.
On the contrary government organisations are supposed to work for the public with 'Service Motive'.
If the timing of government office was changed to 10.00am-- 6.00pm that may make more sense. It would be much easier to implement. It would be easier for people, who come from surrounding areas to Dhaka, to reach Dhaka in time, finish their work and leave Dhaka in the evening.
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