Working hour flexibility

Many suggestions has been thrown out how to tracke the global warming problem: tax on gasoline, biofuel, tax through insurance on driving, etc.

I have another suggestion. I think a large portion of driving are devoted to work commute. In many cases, people do not drive as much as during the weekend. Unlike work commute, people has more flexibility in their driving decision in the weekend. If we can reduce our working day from 5 days a week to 4 days a week. Think about a typical hours of work in a typical weekday: 8-5pm from Monday to Friday. If we can squeeze it into 4 days from 7am to 6pm, the total number of hours will increase from 45 hours per week to 44 hours. We can cut lunch time for the new scheme from 1 hour to 45 minutes to make the 1 hour up.

I think many workers will like to have this new arrangement. If government worries that people may drive even more in the "long" weekend, the government can make it Wednesday break instead of Monday or Friday.

I think indeed some international institution has this practice, probably for a different resaon. IMF for example, employees there can take every other Friday off. We do not see there is any significant problem for the fund's operation. Of course we can also be more flexible in this new scheme, instead of everyone off on Wednesday, some take Wed, some take Thur, and so on. The company can continue to funcation 5 days a week.

This is probably be good for the earth and for the employees. Is that a win win situation?