2 Day Weekends!!!

As of January 26th the Sandbox will begin observing 2 day weekends!!! Here's the article:

January 6, 2008 – The Sandbox cabinet today has decided to adopt a two-day weekend starting from January 26.
The Council of Ministers on Sunday decided to expand the weekend holiday from the current one day (Friday) to two days (Friday and Saturday) beginning from Saturday January 26, for a period of six month for studying and assessment.
The Council of Ministers called on the Ministry of Labour to adopt the necessary arrangements to implement this decision in a manner that comply with the national and international labour laws and guarantee enhancement of the productivity.
The Cabinet also instructed the Ministry of Education and the Ministries of Education in the states to study the experiment and to determine its impact on the academic year and the education process so as to cope with this situation.

Maybe people are coming around. I especially like that it's only for 6 months for 'study and assessment'. As of now people work between about 9-ish to 2-ish. I wonder how exactly they define 'productivity' because I haven't seen a whole lot of that around here. However I can pretty much guarantee that there will be a 'decline in productivity' if they still work the same hours but 5 days a week instead of 6...problem is, has anyone else thought of that???