Kaduna State Government says it would commence a transition to four-day working week in the state.
It indicated that in the interim, it would permit public servants to work from home for one day per week.
This is designed to help boost productivity, improve work-life balance and enable workers to have more time for their families, for rest and for agriculture, the state said.
It added that the measure would further reflect lessons learnt from managing the COVID-19 pandemic which required the relaxation of the old working tradition and the introduction of virtual and remote working arrangements.
A statement from Sir Kashim Ibrahim House stated that the Kaduna State Government would begin the implementation of the transitional arrangements in the state public service from 1st December 2021.
From that date, working hours for public servants would be adjusted to 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
The statement made available on Monday by Muyiwa Adekeye, Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication, stated that all public servants, other than those in schools and healthcare facilities, would work from home on Fridays.
The interim working arrangement, it stated, would subsist until the government moved to the next stage of the transition which would culminate in the four-working-day per week across all MDAs in the state.
It stressed that senior officers were working on detailed guidelines to ensure that the emergency services and the education and health systems in the state continued to deliver services 24 hours a day, seven days a week during the transition and beyond.
The state government expects the required legal and regulatory framework to be in place by January 2022 to enable the organised private sector to engage with the process and agree on a longer transition period to a four-day working week.
