The municipal government of Santo Domingo in this province will shift to a four-day onsite workweek starting Monday, Oct. 5.
This is part of efforts to conserve energy, promote environmental sustainability, and improve administrative efficiency.
Under the interim modified workweek, municipal offices will operate onsite from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, while employees will work from home every Friday.
The local government said in an advisory Friday (Oct. 2) that the arrangement was adopted to reduce energy consumption and support more sustainable and efficient government operations.
However, offices providing frontline services will maintain adequate staffing and skeleton forces on Fridays to attend to walk-in clients and urgent public transactions.
These include the Office of the Municipal Civil Registrar, Municipal Treasurer’s Office, Municipal Health Office, Business Permit and Licensing Office, Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office, Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, and public safety and traffic enforcement units.
The municipal government said that frontline services will remain operational and accessible despite the work-from-home arrangement.
The modified schedule will be implemented as an interim arrangement, according to the local government.