Those of you who have been following this blog for the past few months may remember that, back in April, I was asked to reduce my working time to four days a week. As of this week, I am now back to working five days a week.
I’m not sure how I feel about this.
On one hand, the additional income will be nice — especially in the aftermath of Christmas. We’re not going anywhere or seeing anyone, but presents still need to be bought and shipped.
On the other hand, I have become quite used to having my Fridays free. One day a week, on my own, has given me plenty of opportunity to actually get get quite a few things done.
On the third hand, I’m not the first to go back to full time working, and not opening my laptop on Monday to discover I am a(nother) day behind on a whole bunch of requests will reduce some of the pressure I’ve been feeling for the past few weeks.
I don’t have a fourth hand.
On balance, it’s probably a good thing although I can’t help feeling that, if everyone went down to working four days a week, we would all be a lot happier.
And I’m still working from home, so all is not lost.
Lightly Seared on the Reality Grill 
I’ve been part time for a few years now working 3 days a week, I’d hate to go back to full time. Hopefully it won’t be too bad if you can work from home.
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I’m surprised at just how much I have started to take it for granted that I have Fridays to myself. Working from home does help — hopefully, this will remain an option after Corona.
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Four day work weeks are a good idea.
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Very much so
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Start slow. Our work is based on public events and cycle races. We are down really until spring.
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That sounds like good advice. Day to day stuff for us is still way down, but we have several projects ongoing that are starting to become urgent.
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