Working Time Reduction and the Four-Day Week

Real Utopias for a Social Europe: The second two-day workshop on Working Time Reduction and the Four-Day Week.

Description

Real Utopias for a Social Europe is a series of technical debate-type workshops on bold and innovative social policy proposals. The second two-day workshop on Working Time Reduction and the Four-Day Week took place online on 27-28 October.

The second workshop in the series addresses Working Time Reduction and the Four-Day Week, brought together selected experts on these policies to discuss on the pros and cons of these measures, their potential social, environmental and economic impacts from a policy-oriented and evidence-based point of view. This workshop closely fits the European Commission’s priority of dealing with an economy that works for people and a European Green Deal. More information here on the first workshop on Universal Benefits.

Below you can watch the recorded sessions and check the programme of the workshop:

Practical information

Languages: English
Organisers: Joint Research Centre

Real Utopias for a Social Europe: Working Time Reduction and the Four-Day Week

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Event

Impacts of Worktime Reduction

Day 1: 27 October 2022
14:00 – 14:05

Welcome address

14:05 – 15:45

Session I: Employment, productivity, gender, and wellbeing
Chair: Davide Villani (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)
Speakers:

  • Paloma Villanueva (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
  • Till Van Treeck (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
  • Ozlem Onaran (University of Greenwich)
  • Anthony Lepinteur (University of Luxemburg)
  • Maria Rosaria Gualano (UniCamillus-Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences, Rome)
15:45 – 16:00

Break

16:00 – 16:30

Keynote speech: Juliet Schor (Boston College)

16:30 – 17:30

Session II: Environment
Chair: Cristina Monge (Universidad de Zaragoza, Journalist)
Speakers:

  • Andrew Watt (Macroeconomic Policy Institute)
  • Héctor Tejero (Más País, MP at Madrid’s Parliament, Bioinformatician)
  • Simone D’Alessandro (Università di Pisa)
  • Edlira Narazani (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)

Understanding and Assessing 4-day Week Experiences

Day 2: 28 October 2022
10:00 – 10:30

Keynote speech: Lina Gálvez (MEP)

10:30 – 12:30

Session I: The design and evaluation of 4-day week pilots and experiences
Chair: Lucía Alonso (Red2Red)
Speakers:

  • Joan Sanchís (Generalitat Valenciana, Universitat de València)
  • Pedro Gomes (Birkbeck, University of London)
  • A.F. Mullens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
  • Pierre Larrouturou (MEP)

Discussant: Hugo Cuello (Innovation Growth Lab, Nesta)

12:30 – 12:40

Closing remarks and presentation of Workshop 3: Leire Salazar (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)

DigClass The Real Utopias for a Social Europe Series

The Real Utopias for a Social Europe series is organized by the DigClass team within the JRC-Centre for Advanced Studies. DigClass is a project born out of increasing concern in Europe about the implications of the digital revolution for social inequalities and democratic processes. The project aims to understand better how digital technologies alter the mechanisms that generate inequalities in the distribution of resources and life chances, which is crucial for social policies to respond to the challenges of the digital revolution.

Drop us a line at JRC-CAS-DIGCLASS@ec.europa.eu if you want to stay tuned with our seminar series, publications, and other activities.