Many countries in the Asia Pacific region rely on fuel that travels through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has blocked for the past month after US strikes on the country. International Energy Agency director Fatih Birol described the resulting global fuel shortage as the worse than the previous Gulf wars and Russia's war on Ukraine combined.

To conserve resources, government workers in the Philippines have moved to a four-day work week, while Sri Lanka has declared each Wednesday a public holiday.

I missed this news, excellent job making a four-day work week happen, island-friends!

This seems like a golden opportunity to win the four-day week, and even if one sector like this manages to get a foot in the door, it opens up the potential for others. So far, all I can find are a few trials, around 20 small companies in total.

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Do the workers in Philippines and Sri Lanka get paid for the extra day off? I hope so

Workers in Philippines are working a compressed work week, same number of hours , just in 4 days or work from home on Friday

[–] eureka@aussie.zone 0 points 3 days ago

Yeah, that's an excellent point. I couldn't easily find official details about pay changes or hours.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 0 points 4 days ago

I'm so glad I'm not working as a driving instructor any more and filling up every two to three days. I was barely making a living as I was when it was $1.60 - $1.70 a litre.