The experiment of the four-day week in the ministries will begin in the spring and will last “at least a year”according to a note from the administration, consulted Tuesday March 26, by Agence France-Presse, on the eve of a government seminar on work.
Announced in January by the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, this experiment aims to evaluate “the impact”particularly with regard to “balance between professional and personal life”of this modulation of working time which consists of concentrating one’s hours on a reduced number of days.
“It will be done at constant numbers” and without reduction in legal working time of 1,607 hours per year, insists the General Directorate of Administration and Civil Service (DGAFP) in this note dated Friday.
The experiment will take place both in Paris and in the services “decentralized” (outside the capital) ministries. State operators “may be associated (…) if that seems relevant”details the administration. “It will be up to each department head to determine the relevance” to carry out the experiment or not, she adds.
On a voluntary basis “
The DGAFP hopes to finalize the list of services ready to test the modulation of working hours in April or May, and immediately launch the first experiments. Modulation of working time will begin “no later than September 2024 for a period of at least one year”, it is specified in the note. A first assessment will be drawn up in the summer of 2025 and will be used to prepare “perpetuation or extension” of experimentation – the administration does not mention the scenario of an inconclusive experiment.
In addition to the four-day week, administrations will be able to test the four and a half day week or the alternation of weeks of four then five days. The experiment will be deployed on the basis of “volunteering”but civil servants who have “regulatory service obligations”such as teachers, or time cycles other than the traditional five-day week, will be excluded.
Her ” logic “ East “to evaluate how the system would allow (…) to benefit as many agents as possible”and in particular those who do not have access to teleworking, “a reduction in days worked with presence on site”. In public services welcoming users, “the opening ranges must naturally not be reduced but can, on the contrary, be extended due to the presence of agents over a wide range [horaire] extended daily »writes the DGAFP.