The Kaduna State Government has announced a transition to a four-day working week for public servants in the state.
The development, according to it, will permit public servants to work from home for one day per week.
This was contained in a statement from Sir Kashim Ibrahim House, signed by the Special Adviser to the Governor, Media and Communication, Muyiwa Adekeye.
According to the statement, the measure is designed to help boost productivity, improve work-life balance, and enable workers to have more time for their families, rest, and agriculture.
Similarly, it will help reflect lessons learnt from managing the Covid-19 pandemic, which required significant relaxations of old working traditions and the ascendance of virtual and remote working arrangements.
The statement reads: A statement from Sir Kashim Ibrahim house stated that the Kaduna State Government will begin implementing the transitional arrangements in the state’s public service from 1st December 2021. From that date, working hours for public servants hours are adjusted to 8 am-5 pm, Monday to Friday.
“However, other than those in schools and healthcare facilities, all public servants will work from home on Fridays. This interim working arrangement will subsist until the government is ready to move to the next stage of the transition, which will culminate in the four-day week across all MDAs in the state”.
Continuing, “Senior officials are working on detailed guidelines to ensure that the emergency services and the education and health systems in the state continue to deliver services 24 hours a day, seven days a week during the transition and beyond.
The government will also ramp up its efforts to give public servants access to digital devices and platforms to work effectively from home. Given the state government’s significant investments in ICT, it will ensure that most of its automated services deliver the levels of performance required to give citizens seamless access.
The state government expects the required legal and regulatory framework to be in place by January 2022. This will also enable the organized private sector to engage with the process and agree a more extended transition period to a four-day working week”, it reads.
