With the official weekend in the UAE shifting from Friday / Saturday to Saturday / Sunday, UAE residents have had to adjust their personal and social activities to a new weekend schedule and a new set of days. Through a study launched by Ipsos in UAE this week, 65% of UAE residents said that Saturday will be their new Friday.
The survey, executed online on the 25th and 26th of January, on a representative sample of 1,200 UAE residents, aged 15+, showed that 80% of Arab Expats and 74% of Local Nationals, will consider Saturday as their new Friday, while only 51% of Asian and 45% of Western Expats stated Saturday as their new Friday, evenly split on the two days.
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