New weekly holidays
This is about the new weekly holidays and working hours. It appears whatever the weekly holidays are, working period would be less due to geographical distance between the countries concerned and the consequential time difference. For example, when the week starts from Sunday morning in Dhaka, say at 9:00am, it would be Saturday night in New York, and so on. Again, it is on our weekdays that we could be in touch with persons in their office in European countries for a limited period as we are five hours ahead. The same thing happens in respect of countries in the East.
Japan is nine hours ahead of GMT and Philippines is 8 hours ahead of GMT.
It is therefore obvious that there can hardly be any ideal weekly holiday system and working hours. Therefore if we wish to enjoy two days weekend, we have to depend more on the Internet, Email, phone, fax etc., which could be made more effective by the use of cellular phones, and by making arrangements for attending office telephones.
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