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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Reduction of working time

Reduction of working time

  • Shorter working week
  • Short working time

Incidence

According to a 1999 report, for most Europeans the ideal working week was a 34-hour week, as against the 39 hours worked on average by employees and the self-employed, taken together.

Claim

People have lost the commitment to work, to have a vocation.

Counter-claim

In France, a cut from 39 to 35 hours a week would create a million extra jobs over five years.

Broader

Workers uninterested in production
Presentable
Negative social effects of automation
Presentable
Lack of time
Presentable

Aggravates

Unpreparedness for surplus leisure time
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Excessive hours of work
Excellent

Reduces

Lack of jobs
Presentable

Strategy

Reducing working hours
Yet to rate
Increasing time sovereignty
Yet to rate

Value

Shortsighted
Yet to rate
Shortness
Yet to rate
Short-termism
Yet to rate
Short-range
Yet to rate
Short-duration
Yet to rate
Reduction
Yet to rate

Reference

Cuvillier, Rolande: The Reduction of Working Time: scope and implications in industrialised market
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Shorter Working Time: a dilemma for collective bargaining

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Fundamental sciences » Form
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    J3708
    DOCID
    12037080
    D7NID
    142207
    Last update
    May 19, 2022