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Folks who work the Reduced Work Week or Compressed Work Week, how has it effected your life?
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i work in academia. i don't even do less than 40, but 4x9 and 1x4. in summer i do 4x10. before i started the job, i never would have imagined how much better life is having that extra day off, or even a half day on fridays. i love it so much, i probably wouldn't even start looking for another job if they cut my pay by $5K.
my previous position it was the standard 5x8, except we were required to take an unpaid hour for lunch, so it was really 5x9 (9am - 6pm, 5 days/week). i say fuck literally everything about that. they wouldn't ever even consider making the lunch hour optional, because they want you shackled to the desk an hour later every day.
Ya it's wild what a boon having an extra block of time to oneself is. Some friends are looking for new jobs and we were chatting, but i couldn't figure out how much better the pay would have to be to get me back to 5 days a week if I tried to get a new job.