Around 45.8 percent of employees in Saudi Arabia work more than 40 hours per week, according to a report released by the Saudi General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) on Sunday.
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Female supporters of Saudi s Al-Hilal attend their team s football match against Al-Ittihad in the Saudi Pro League at the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh on January 13, 2018. (AFP / Ali Al-arifi)
A series of momentous social and economic reforms has seen Saudi Arabia evolve faster in the past few years than it has in decades. Women have been freed to drive, the long-standing ban on cinemas has been lifted, a series of economic and social reforms designed to diversify the country’s economy have been launched, and the once inward-looking Kingdom is opening up to the world.