Tokyo launches the brief week to fight the collapse in births | EUROtoday

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The Tokyo metropolitan authorities launches the brief week to fight the demographic winter. The physique that administers the Japanese metropolis will permit its workers to work 4 days every week in what’s proposed as a radical experiment to attempt to reverse Japan’s low delivery fee.

The program, based mostly on the “four-on, three-off” precept that goals to reconcile work and life occasions, comes because the Japanese inhabitants is heading in the direction of the sixteenth consecutive 12 months of demographic decline.

The Tokyo authorities’s challenge, which is able to begin in April 2025, permits workers to regulate their working hours to utterly unencumber sooner or later of their alternative every week. The initiative goals to achieve out to the 160,000 workers employed by the municipal administration whose jurisdiction oversees the lives of 12.5 million folks. The brief week experiment follows comparable packages by native governments in prefectures and cities throughout Japan.

And it would not cease there. The Tokyo metropolitan authorities additionally goals to make nursery faculties free for all pre-school youngsters ranging from September, as introduced by town governor, Yuriko Koike, explaining that the choice goals to cut back the monetary burden for households, extending the free help coverage for second-borns and subsequent youngsters.