Reduction of working time

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.

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

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

1. Workers uninterested in production
2. Negative social effects of automation
3. Lack of time

1. Unpreparedness for surplus leisure time

1. Excessive hours of work

1. Lack of jobs

1. Reducing working hours
2. Increasing time sovereignty

1. Shortsighted
2. Shortness
3. Short-termism
4. Short-range
5. Short-duration
6. Reduction