Working longer, but differently? While the debate on the pension reform is raging and the mobilization in the street is massive, the Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, announced the launch of an experiment of the four-day week in the civil service.

Quoted in an article in “L’Opinion”, he specifies that the agents of the Union for the collection of social security contributions and family allowances (Urssaf) in Picardy will be able to test the 36-hour week in four days for a year. . This new organization of working time will be left to the discretion of the agents.

Widely supportive agents

“I believe that many French people today aspire to work differently,” says Gabriel Attal in the daily. “The 35-hour week in four days, which 10,000 French people are already experimenting with in a wide variety of economic sectors such as industrial recycling or IT, can mean less time spent in transport, less stress, and in the end, more well-being at work,” he says. “For employers, it could also be a guarantee of attractiveness and greater productivity. »

This announcement comes as the government faces a major mobilization against its pension reform, which plans to postpone the legal retirement age to 64. The unions claimed more demonstrators on Tuesday than on January 19, the first day of mobilization in the streets.

However, the reduction of working time and the four-day week are part of the demands of part of the left. According to a survey quoted by “L’Opinion”, 70% of Urssaf agents in Picardy are in favor of the measure. But only a quarter would use it.

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