Controversial opinion: weekends should be cancelled.
* Now with most of the world, sheltering-in-place, the difference between weekday and weekends has already merged.
* Now people know how to balance life between work and home on a daily basis as there is no escape route left.

In pre- #COVID19 #CoronaVirus world, the western concept of weekend had already lost its purpose. People were getting super-stressed on weekdays and then tried to compensate that on weekends. For a more healthy society, both work and leisure need to happen on a daily basis.

Humans are at their best when get in rhythm with natural cycles which are daily, lunar and solar (includes seasons). Month roughly corresponds to luna cycle (very roughly). The artificial concept of a week and therefore weekday/weekend is pure non-sense.

In ancient India, there was a concept of having full-moon day and new-moon day off. Both are good to take a break as energy levels are at their extreme and great influence practices like meditation. Bunch of festivals were also thrown around at that time.

What I am suggesting (which I know will never happen) is that people get far more flexibility on 7 day weekdays by giving up weekends. It will be a happier/healthier society.

Interestingly, when I was in my freshman year at @iitdelhi, there was fear of plague outbreak and we had to go home for 20 days. When we came back, our director cancelled weekends. We had classes every day and we finished the semester in original schedule.