5-day working week - a luxury?
Bangladesh is passing through a critical period of major reforms social, political, economic, moral, and cultural. It is time to review the 5-day working week imposed by some previous political regime; for more output, every minute of each hour; as our systems losses are very high, due to politics of patronisation. It lowered social discipline, and established black spots for lawlessness, and other undesirable activities in public life. How to focus on clearly defined national goals?
We have to work harder, with more dedication, and less pen-pushing. One and a half weekly holiday is a standard practice globally. Besides we are not in tune with the Global Village advantages, as our weekly holiday starts on Friday.
Can we afford the luxury of passing two whole days away from public duties? The proposed decentralization of power away from capital Dhaka needs a lot of homework and practice, before we could return to the routine levels of new expertise of neutral governance, not shadowed by political pulls.
Let us work five hours more per week for our own benefit, in the long run.
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