One behaviour change that will have a positive impact on the environment is a four-day working week. Working a four-day week, rather than, say, taking more holidays or working fewer hours each day, was a great way of reducing your environmental impact. When France instituted a 35-hour working week in 2000, people developed less materialistic values and tended to use their free time with their families, resting or participating in sports or cultural events. To ensure people choose activities with a low environmental impact, we need to provide an “infrastructure of conviviality”. Experiments with the shorter working week dating back to the 1970s found that employees tended to be more satisfied with their job.

Source: The Guardian June 21, 2019 08:01 UTC