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What is the week “in” four days, and not “of” four days, which is proposed to civil servants?

2024-02-05T06:00:53.212Z

Highlights: Since the 1990s, the four-day week has been turning heads in France. The new Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, decided to make it one of his societal markers. It involves going from five days of seven hours, to four days but with an amplitude around nine hours. “Arrive earlier in the morning and leave later in the evening to work one day less”, summarizes the PM, who called on all of his ministers to “test this solution in their central and decentralized administrations”


This is the formula revisited by Gabriel Attal. The Prime Minister asks to experiment with it “in central administrations and deconcen


Since the 1990s, the four-day week has been turning heads.

And yet, this small revolution in the organization of working time, pushed in the name of work sharing by unions, and certain politicians, like its tireless defender since 1993, Pierre Larrouturou, has never really taken off in France.

Thirty years later, the new Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, decided to make it one of his societal markers slipped into a sentence in his general policy speech.

But be careful, nothing to do with the original idea.

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The Attal formula?

It is “not the four

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day week but the four

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day week, with no reduction in working hours.

» A major nuance since it involves going from five days of seven hours, to four days but with an amplitude around nine hours.

“Arrive earlier in the morning and leave later in the evening to work one day less”, summarizes the Prime Minister, who called on all of his ministers to “test this solution in their central and decentralized administrations”.

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Source: leparis

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