Al-Marsad Newspaper: Writer Ahmed Ajab told the story of “Andrew Boyer”, CEO of “Royce Laser” leather goods company in New Jersey, USA, who decided to reduce working hours to 7 hours per day, which led to an increase in production on the factory’s assembly line from 10 to 15%, as well as This raised the salaries of employees by 15%.
And the writer added in an article under the title “Working 6 hours a day” in “Al-Madina” newspaper: “As for us, as soon as the rumor appeared to reduce working days to 4 days and a weekly leave of 3 days, with which private sector employees breathed a sigh of relief, until human resources quickly denied their intention to study. The issue of reducing working days, and that what it is studying is a periodic review of the regulations in force with the aim of increasing job creation and raising the market’s attractiveness for local and international investments.
Waste of company resources
And he continued: I will be frank with you; And he announced it from the reality of the experience of two decades of time, working in the private sector, which extends to 48 actual working hours per week, is nothing but a waste of the company’s resources such as electricity, water, paper and office tools. Every six months, as if he lives in an Eskimo, it is nothing but a center (Takwa) to teach (the taqq al-hanaq), which a person enters, ignorant of the alphabets of backbiting and gossip, and graduates from it, obtaining the international ISO certificate due to the quality of his beast and his rhythm with his colleagues! I will be frank with you; I give vivid examples of the effectiveness of reducing working hours.
And he continued: The closest example is that working in Ramadan is a 6-hour system, yet productivity increases and employees’ loyalty and love for the job increases. Likewise, the majority of representatives and responsible managers do not come throughout the year until 11 in the morning and leave at 5 in the afternoon, and yet we see their work is not the same nor their age have been subjected to any blame or accountability, as well. Some exhausting jobs, such as mines and dangerous industries, do not exceed 7 hours, yet productivity is more and better.
What should the employee refrain from?
The writer said: “I will be frank with you; if the working hours remain in the same current routine, it will not suffice. Rather, the employee must refrain during working hours from opening communication sites, sending a personal email, talking about colleagues, loitering between offices, or taking the slightest opportunity and going out for a sip of a cigarette.” With her passers-by in front of the entrance or frequent and collective exits to eat meals in the most delicious restaurants, but he must separate between private life and work, and focus entirely on productive efficiency, and postpone those pleasures until the end of work.”
He went on: The work today, as before, no longer requires the preparation of documents or production tools, as the majority of work has turned into digital transactions, and what used to take two hours to complete can be accomplished with the click of a button in a quarter of an hour. In the private sector, it provides for a day off per week, although reducing hours and increasing shifts when needed will raise productivity, eliminate unemployment and regulate social life, especially since the number of Saudis in the labor market is more than 1,900,000 young men and women, and the number will double with the joining of government employees if privatization is implemented, and they are the ones who succeeded in their work In the public sector for nearly two decades and they are our last living example and evidence of the sincerity of our above vision, which proves beyond any doubt that (working 6 hours is sufficient).