NMP Loo Choon Yong suggested that Singaporeans are slacking because we are working only 5 days and even though we don’t work on Saturdays, we are not making enough babies to justify having that 2 days off. Since we are not making babies on Saturdays, he suggest that we should just go back to work.
He even suggested that by planning our leaves to extend the long weekends due to public holidays is a sign of erosion of the work ethics.
Dear Mr Loo, I beg to differ. Instead of making us work more, we should have another day off. Singaporeans should go for 4-day week instead. Most of us find that two-day weekends are insufficient to cover the work young couples need to complete at every weekend – meeting up with friends, exercising, doing household chores, watching EPL matches etc. By Sunday, most will be dreading the arrival of Mondays. So where’s the time and mood to procreate?
By having 4-day week, there will be one more day for couples to really relax and maybe do some bedroom exercises. Then, maybe you’ll get increased in the national exercise of procreation. And with a short week, everyone will be motivated to finish work faster within the short 4 days, whereby enhancing productivity!
So Dr Loo, be brave and revolutionary – think out of the box – propose to the Parliament that MOM should endorse 4 day work week, rather than working on Saturdays.
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