🔺The past and present of working time (presentation of an upcoming issue of Transfer, the European Review of Labour and Research 🔺The complex impacts of working time reduction on workers and workplaces 🔺Trade union approaches to working time policy

This upcoming conference will bring together academics and trade unionists in a wide-ranging discussion looking into:

Sparked by work intensification, digital demands and non-standard schedules, and accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, this interest has led to trials of four-day week and reduced working hours arrangements being rolled out across Europe

Working time reduction has seen a resurgence of interest in recent times ⏲️

⏲️ The findings point to working time reduction being a promising and under-explored policy instrument in climate mitigation

💡 The estimates from the brief's modelling suggest that a 1% increase in annual hours worked is associated with a rise in CO2 emissions of over 0.4%, with hikes also found in energy use and ecological and carbon footprint

🔍 These are the findings of new research from ETUI economist Mehtap Akgüç, which takes data from 30 European countries to produce a robust empirical assessment of the relationship between working time and climate impact

- the ESRC Centre for Digital Futures at Work (Digit), which organises the Digitalisation, Artificial Intelligence, Work and Employment network (DAISY) - the Cyborg Workers Collective

📆 The conference is organised in collaboration with: - the Norwegian Research School on Digitalisation, Culture and Society (DIGIT) @oslomet.bsky.social

Round three in the 'Cyborg Workers' conference series 🤖