Thousands of public employees in Lyon now have the option to work four days a week instead of five, without taking a pay cut. The south-eastern city, one of France's biggest, is experimenting with a shorter work week in the hope of reducing absenteeism and narrowing the gender gap.
Since the start of September, employees of Lyon Metropole, the local authority responsible for running the city and its main suburbs, have had the choice of three alternatives to the traditional five-day week: working four days a week, or four and a half, or alternating weekly between four and five days.
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