Four Day Working Week - why a long weekend would benefit the environment

As if we didn't have already got enough motives to give up the 9-5, five-working-day UK gadget (Sweden is seeing huge benefits running six hour days), science has subsequently joined the conversation to offer us one greater.

See, it turns out it is not simply our intellectual fitness, bodily health, trendy wellbeing and social existence in order to all benefit from much less time in the workplace and extra time at domestic, the environment has something to gain, too.

An article via University lecturer Alex Williams argues that "three-day weekends may be one of the easiest steps we may want to take to greatly lessen our environmental effect—and future-proof our economic system."

His reasoning is based totally on studies which indicates a correlation among decreased running hours and a discount in strength consumption.

This could be right down to much less commuting (the dream), at the side of another day of offices being 'turned off' for the weekend - so no lights, computers, air-conditioning and so forth.

And there is already proof that it really works. In Utah in 2007, the kingdom eliminated Fridays as a working day by means of growing hours Monday - Friday. In doing so, the state stored £1.36 million in electricity costs inside the first 10 months and just from getting rid of at some point of commuting saved an expected 12,000 heaps of CO₂ annually.

Whatsmore, research have recommended that we tend to be more productive whilst we're operating from home anyway, so why no longer banish the workplace altogether and paintings a adorable four-day week from home?

h/t Hello Giggles