Hong Kong pivots to a 5-day civil service work week in 2006 – SCMP archive

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This article was first published on July 3, 2006.Workers more efficient over five days: civil service chiefby Ng Kang-chungCivil servants can work more efficiently and serve citizens better by not having to work on Saturdays, the city’s 6.9 million residents have been promised on the eve of implementation of a five-day week.The new working week would also help save citizens time and travel expenses if they switched to using services by fax, mail or internet, Civil Service Secretary Denise...