UK tests four-day working week

In the United Kingdom, in a social assistance center, the crisis caused the number of calls to explode. But the employees are coping. For six months, they have been working four days a week for the same salary. They take advantage of the fifth day to rest. Sixty companies took the test. The experience is conclusive: the number of sick leaves has been halved.

A pool truck for learning to swim in Germany

In Germany, a pool truck makes it possible to learn to swim. Installed near Stuttgart, this vehicle is a mobile swimming pool in a country where one in two primary school children cannot swim since Covid-19. An economical solution in these times of energy crisis.

In Italy, the gondolas of Venice are stuck in the mud. In the midst of vsarnaval, tourists are stuck by exceptional low water. In the country, the drought is likely to persist.