So, would it be a good idea to simply declare Fridays non-working days?

BBC: African viewpoint: A three-day week for Ghana?

Thursdays and Fridays or Fridays and Saturdays are non-working days in most of the Muslim world but some say this disrupts work with Western countries, who have Saturdays and Sundays off.

BBC: Yahya Jammeh gives Gambians an extra day off

In 1741, the German-born English composer George Frederick Handel finished his "Messiah" oratorio, after working on it non-stop for 23 days.

CNN: Monday,

"My working week was certainly six and a half days a week non-stop, and the hours were anything from 14 to 18 hours a day for many years, " he said.

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As Abrahamson tells us about Ahmanson during the war, though he was known for working 18-hour days back in Los Angeles, in his non-combat role for the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.

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