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Working time, health and parenting

Personalized adaptation of working time is gaining ground in communities; still modest, the experiments are rather positive.

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Port and industrial challenges of decarbonization

The decarbonization of the economy is at stake in metropolises, in close cooperation between public authorities, industry and research & development.

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The 4-day week is in tune with the times, as is the women’s cause and gender equality. Social progress, well-being at work, attractiveness or “employer brand”, there is no shortage of issues to justify the personalized arrangement of working time. The experiments of the 4-day week have shown, on a small scale and in compatible functions, their harmlessness on the functioning of the organization. However, this is not without reluctance on the part of elected officials, small communities and certain colleagues who see it as a fool’s game (as much work but less leave) or an excessive tension on the elasticity of our organizations to the individualization of working conditions.

For our second subject, decarbonization, the visit to the Port of Marseille wanted to feel the scale of this atypical metropolis that is Aix-Marseille-Provence and illustrate the way in which size can add to the complexity of the issues. However, this size is also what allows a great diversity of situations, in a sometimes striking play of contrasts. Our dive into this world of innovation that is clean tech has shown this. Technological and industrial innovation is not the main marker of Marseille and yet our metropolis is world-class in certain industries. The fact remains that football, drug trafficking and the northern districts are also very present realities, often harsh but no less interesting for all of us, my dear colleagues. The Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis will be delighted to welcome you again for an entirely different meeting but, I hope, just as exciting.

Domnin Rauscher, Chief Executive of Aix-Marseille-Provence Métropole

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