Six-day workweek: when will it be in 2025, production schedule

In October, Russians will have the only six-day working week in 2025. According to the production calendar, it falls on October 27 — November 1. It will be followed by a short three-day working week. For more information about the production schedule, see the Izvestia article.

Production calendar for the 25th year

In October, Russians will have the only six-day working week in 2025. According to the production calendar, it will start on October 27 and end on November 1. She will have three days of rest, from November 2 to November 4, and then a short three-day working week will begin, from Wednesday, November 5 to Friday, November 7.

At the same time, organizations with a continuous work cycle, emergency services and those who serve the population on a daily basis are not subject to weekend postponement. For their employees, holidays can be working days, but with mandatory increased pay.

The upcoming New Year holidays will also be long for Russians — as many as 12 days — due to the postponement of the weekend. Russians will spend their holidays in trouble and preparations as early as December 31, 2025, after which they will relax and enjoy the winter days until January 11, 2026.

Production calendar for year 26

According to the production calendar for 2026, Russians will have several shortened working weeks. So, in honor of Defender of the Fatherland Day, Russians are waiting for three February weekends in a row — from February 21 to February 23.

The March calendar promises the same number of days off due to the advent of International Women's Day. You will be able to relax and congratulate from March 7 to March 9.

And in May, in honor of both Spring and Labor Day and Victory Day, Russians will rest twice for three days — from 1 to 3 May and from 9 to 11 May.

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Residents of Russia will rest for almost two weeks for the New Year holidays

Russia Day will also be accompanied by weekends from Friday to Sunday, that is, from June 12 to June 14. In November, Russian residents will have only one day off on the occasion of National Unity Day — on Wednesday, November 4.

And for the New Year holidays of 2027, it follows from the explanatory note of the Ministry of Labor, Russians will leave from December 31 to January 10, 2027.

Four-day working week: when will it be, what is known

The day before, Yaroslav Nilov, head of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans' Affairs, suggested that one day in Russia a four-day working week might be officially established for some professions.

According to him, the labor market will gradually move to such a schedule, but this process should not be imposed on a regulatory basis and is not suitable for all professions.
"I believe that we will eventually come to this. But all this should take place evolutionarily, synergetically, and in no case should there be any regulation," the parliamentarian said.

He stressed that it is impossible to allow a reduction in the working week to lead to a decrease in the income of citizens or negative consequences for enterprises.

"But it [will happen] not today, not tomorrow, and not the day after tomorrow. And not for all areas — there are forms of employment where people receive piecework, there are services that operate continuously. The doctor will not perform the operation remotely. Therefore, we must understand that this will be gradual, and it will not apply to all areas or positions. But gradually, those who will be able to work less and rest more, while not reducing productivity and not losing their earnings for the employer, and continue to build their social and labor relations on mutually beneficial terms, will gradually fulfill this. And gradually, step by step, we will slowly approach the four—day working week," concluded Nilov.

The parliamentarian noted that after the pandemic, some employers continue to use remote and mixed forms of employment, and some "have already defined a four—day week instead of a five-day working week, and some even a three-day week, but through redistribution [of resources] and self-organization." At the same time, their labor productivity is not decreasing, incomes are growing, there is less need to rent space and equip workplaces, and the employee needs to spend less time on travel, and so on.