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Russia - Medvedev: We need to strive for a four-day work week

Russia (bbabo.net), - Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, who once started a discussion about moving to four working days a week, believes that Russia, as economic conditions emerge, should also move to this.

In an interview with a number of domestic media, he drew attention to the fact that in some countries such a system was introduced as an experimental one, and somewhere already legally: “The issue is economic readiness to work four days a week. We all perfectly understand that a person should recover, that three days off is better than two, you will agree. But this cannot be done simply with a stroke of the pen. "

Such a transition can proceed gradually, for individual industries and industries, based on the general economic situation in the country. "But in general, this should be strived for," the deputy head of the Security Council stressed.

In addition, Medvedev noted, the prerequisites began to appear along with the coronavirus pandemic: when many people switched to remote work, there are a lot of meanings in this four-day working week. "Of course, without a change in salary. Nobody has ever said that a four-day work week is a minus in money. No, of course," he ruled out.

Russia - Medvedev: We need to strive for a four-day work week