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”