Debate of the day

Work: is the four-day week a permanent model?

Audio 29:30

What are the intakes of the four-day week?

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By: Romain Auzouy

1 min

A few days ago, the

revealed that more than 3,000 British employees were going to test, from June 2022, the four-day week.

This concept is not new, it has already been tested in several countries, with or without a reduction in working time.

In Belgium, the four-day week is even part of the labor market reform project currently under study.

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Should the formula be generalized?

What contributions?

What brakes?

How does this question take on its full meaning in the post-Covid period?

With : 

- Caroline Diard, teacher-researcher in Human Resources Management and Law at the

- Pierre Larrouturou

, MEP of the group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats

- Laurent de la Clergerie,

president of the

group , a company selling computer and high-tech equipment.

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