Sustainability | NINE-HOUR work week could save the planet

New research from think tank Autonomy has indicated that Brits should work just nine-hour weeks to save the planet – The Sun reports.

The study revealed that switching to a nine-hour schedule per week would help keep the country on track to stall more than 2C of global warming. The think tank is calling on employees to slash their working hours to prevent further climate change chaos and cited relaxing at home as “less of a luxury and more of an emergency”.

Sweden would have to slash working hours to 12-hours a week and Germany to just six.

Will Stronge, Director of Autonomy commented: “Becoming a green, sustainable society will require a number of strategies – a shorter working week being just one of them.” He added that shorter working weeks are achievable because of the up rise of automation.