“The very first condition is that you need to look in which industries you can switch over (to a four-day workweek. - RT ) quite painlessly ... I think that in organizations that are connected with the ability to work on remote access, this will even be welcome. These are scientific organizations, accounting, this is design work - all that does not require a permanent presence in the office, ”Belyaev explained.
According to the expert, everything related to the production cycle and some equipment requires an adequate transition to an additional increase in labor productivity.
“Moreover, (increase. - RT ) labor productivity can go through two channels: the first channel is more intensive work, and the second is the equipment of the workplace with a more productive apparatus. These are indispensable conditions. If this is done in the manufacturing sectors of the real sector of the economy, only then can the question be raised that there will be a transition to a four-day working week without a reduction in earnings, ”Belyaev said.
Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the transition to a four-day working week in Russia is possible in the future, but not “this second”.
He explained that the discussion about the possible introduction of a four-day work week in Russia had long been overdue, and he ordered the ministries to work out these issues.