{"id":18975,"date":"2026-03-05T00:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=18975"},"modified":"2026-03-05T00:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:23:10","slug":"pbbm-open-to-discussions-to-allow-four-day-workweek-in-govt-to-save-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/pbbm-open-to-discussions-to-allow-four-day-workweek-in-govt-to-save-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"PBBM OPEN TO DISCUSSIONS TO ALLOW FOUR-DAY WORKWEEK IN GOV\u2019T TO SAVE ENERGY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is open to exploring a four-day workweek in government offices as an energy-saving measure amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, a Malaca\u00f1ang official said Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSa ngayon po ay maaaring pag-aralan po ng Pangulo ang ganyang suhestiyon lalo na kung magiging malala pa po ang nangyayaring Israel-Iran issue,\u201d Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Undersecretary and Palace Press Officer Claire Castro said during a press briefing in Malaca\u00f1ang.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSa ngayon po ay hindi pa po ito napag-uusapan,\u201d Castro added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Tuesday, President Marcos directed national government offices to conserve energy amid ongoing tensions in the Middle East and encouraged local government units and the public to adopt similar energy-saving measures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>President Marcos also appealed to the public to conserve energy by reducing overall consumption, expressing optimism that the conflict in the Middle East will not persist for an extended period, and reiterating the government\u2019s commitment to implementing measures to cushion its potential impact on the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>President Marcos also assured the public that the government has implemented several measures to mitigate the potential impact on the Philippine economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>At the President\u2019s direction, the Inter-Agency Energy Efficiency and Conservation Committee (IAEECC) has issued an advisory outlining measures to save energy amid ongoing Middle East tensions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Advisory to national government agencies, government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs), state universities and colleges (SUCs), and local government units (LGUs), \u201cenjoining all government entities to reduce fuel consumption by at least ten percent (10%).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is open to exploring a four-day workweek in government offices as an energy-saving measure amid the ongoing conflict in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18977,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18975\/revisions\/18977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}