The prospect of reducing working days and hours January 13, 2021 With an end to the coronavirus pandemic in sight, the independent British Research Center launched a nationwide campaign to contain unemployment and create a healthy society by bringing down weekly workdays. People in most countries had been accustomed to work ten hours a day and six days a week since the last century. The current form of work that we know in Saudi Arabia and other countries — that is to work for five days a week and eight hours a day — began in the year 1908 and that was first in the United States. For this, there were some religious reasons.