Salaries blocked, transfers on hold... Why certain banking operations will be suspended during the Easter weekend.

Many employees could receive their salary on Tuesday April 2 rather than at the end of March. In today's digital age, and when all bank transfers are entirely computerized, how can we explain that they are blocked only because of a weekend or a public holiday? “If unit payments are instantaneous, it is in particular because they are more expensive, whereas the payment of salaries generally depends in Europe on mass systems, which are much cheaper”