Tag: Working Hours
DGHR Pilots Reduced Summer Working Hours for Government Entities
The initiative aims to reduce daily working time to seven hours.
It is launched with the participation of fifteen government entities in Dubai.
The Dubai Government...
The Universal Work-from-home Era Ushered in an Age of Flexible Human...
Most organisations have settled into more digital ways of working and collaborating since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the success of the...
UAE Businesses Moving to The New Weekend; What To Do about...
Employers rethinking their policies on homeworking, schooling, and wellbeing
As the UAE shifts to a Saturday-Sunday weekend, one in five (19%) private sector employers say...
UAE’s Transition to 4-And-Half Day Work Boosts its Drive to Become...
Virtue PR & Marketing Communications said that the UAE’s strategic step of reducing the working weekdays to 4.5 and moving the weekend to Saturday...
An Average Working Mom Clocks in 98 Hours a Week
Parents who are tasked primarily with raising their children have an inherently difficult job. But can it be quantified into hours like a traditional...
UAE Office Workers ‘Go Mobile’ to Boost Productivity
Office workers in the United Arab Emirates are increasingly looking to mobile communications solutions to collaborate and communicate more efficiently, according to a research...
Ramadan Can Boost Productivity and Well-being
Many business leaders believe that Ramadan is associated with a slowing down of operations, fewer hours worked and general loss of effectiveness. Yet research...
Ramadan’s Shorter Work Weeks Can Be Productive, HR Experts
Businesses often believe that Ramadan is associated with a slowing down of operations, fewer hours worked and general loss of effectiveness. Yet pragmatic business...
Dubai extends working hours during the summer season
As the temperatures rise and the heat is getting almost unbearable in Dubai, stores, restaurants and cinemas are starting to extend their working hours....
Ramadan Working Hours
Mohammad Obaid Al Qattami, Minister of Education and Chairman of the Board of the Federal Authority for Human Resources (FAHR) has issued a circular...
Mistakes that could get you fired
No one wants to get fired from their job unless he already has something better in mind. Most people assume that as long as...
Working hours for private sector during Ramadan
The Labour Minister Saqr Ghobash has issued a ministerial circular on the reduction of work hours in implementation of the article 65 of the...
Ramadan Working Hours of Residency, Naturalisation and Foreigners Affairs Departments
The Ministry of Interior has set working hours at the Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs and the Departments of Naturalisation nationwide from 09am...