• Saudi Arabia’s first social network Jaco attracts 1m users in 2 months

    RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA:   The supervisor of the Kingdom's first social network Jaco - Saudi entrepreneur Fahd Al-Shidi announced that the team is working to reach five million users soon. He added that Jaco's attraction of over one million users in the coming two months from other networks, including well-known names,...

  • Saudi achieves 30 percent female labor force target 10 years early

    Saudi Arabia has achieved its target of getting 30 percent female labor force participation nearly 10 years ahead of schedule, a study said. The research, carried out by Roland Berger on behalf of Uber, shows that women made up 36 percent of workers in the Kingdom in 2021 — up...

  • Dubai Chamber to start four-and-a-half day working week from Jan 2022

    Dubai Chamber has announced that it will shift to a four-and-a-half day working week  from 3 January 2022. This is in line with the newly approved workweek for UAE federal government employees. The official working hours will be nine working hours per day Monday-Thursday, from 8am to 5pm, and four...

  • UAE’s curtailed working week rule welcomed

    UAE is the first country in the world to offer a national work week that is shorter than the five-day global week, as well as the first Gulf country to do so.