Russian Billionaire Demands Slavery Shift: 12-Hour, 6-Day Work Quotas to ‘Fix’ Economy
KEY POINTS
- •Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska proposed that Russians work 12 hours a day, six days a week to address economic slowdown.
- •He argued that Russia’s strength lies in working harder during crises, recommending shifts from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturdays included.
- •Despite oil prices surging past $100 per barrel due to Middle East tensions, Russia's GDP growth slowed to 1% in 2025.
Oleg Deripaska, the aluminum czar and Telegram’s new productivity guru, insists Russia jump on a 12-hour, six-day workweek to counter a ‘deeper crisis’ that’s way more intense than your usual interest rate drama. Claiming Russia’s secret sauce is rallying under pressure, the Rusal founder pitches 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. grindfests including Saturdays — because apparently 48 hours of work is the new national characteristic. Despite Russia’s oil boomerang from Middle East tensions pushing crude above $100 a barrel and fueling only a modest 1% GDP growth in 2025 (down from a sprightly 4.3% a year earlier), Deripaska thinks mandatory overtime is the PowerPoint slide Russia desperately needed.
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(1 of 3)When a billionaire’s solution to a stalled economy is to keep the population busier than a caffeinated hamster, you know the crisis ran out of good ideas.
Nothing says economic strategy like telling everyone to work longer while global oil prices flirt with triple digits and growth drills into single digits.
Deripaska’s proposal is basically ‘If we all suffer 12-hour shifts six days a week, the economy might feel bad less often.’
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 3/31/2026 | Author: Huileng Tan
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