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June 2020

Free days for future

Constant economic growth fuels more consumption and CO2 emissions. Many interventions that seek to break this cycle aim at changing our consumption patterns. But CDE’s project “Time is wealth” proposed a different entry point. It looked at whether reducing our working hours could enable a triple gain: better quality of life, fairer societies, and reduced CO2 emissions. A CDE team investigated how this could work, revitalizing the debate about working hours in Switzerland. Their contribution was echoed in Swiss media.

Read the recently published policy brief

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