Who's Been Working 4-Day Work Weeks for a Long Time? (jobs, salary)

[Tzaphkiel]

i tried four 10-hour days work schedule, and it was too exhausting. So I don't like it.

My favorite schedule was a 5-4-9, which was every other Friday off, and working 9-hour days (Mon-Fri, Mon-Thur) with one of those being an 8-hour day instead. I love that schedule. Because there are enough holidays that combined with the 5-4-9 schedule, i had lots of 4 day weekends without the exhaustion of 10-hour days.


tack on a couple of days leave and it was easy to get a week off at a time.

[Forever Blue]

Great to you guys who have been able to have some relief w/ your schedules!

Originally Posted by jobaba

Nurse at a hospital. It's actually 12 hours.

And you're likely to get hired if you want those hours.

Probably not going to be what you expect, but ... go for it.

My jobs don't work that way. One of them is only open 10 hrs a day, I think, so I could try to see about 4 10's, but I doubt the boss will do it. It's just a few of us in that position & just myself & 2 higher-ups in the summer mos.

[Citykid3785]

Many F1000 companies have an informal version of this, accept it's more like 4, 8 hour days, followed by a half day friday.

I officially have half day Fridays, as well as no meeting Fridays and unlimited vacation. Informally, we don't have to work on Friday if we feel caught up. So most of us passively check emails/IM's and start the weekend early. It's great. Thursday feels like Friday. We hit up the neighborhood pool at 2:30 when the kids get home from school. Productivity is up, not down. Definitely a part of our future in many industries and jobs become more efficient and more mental in nature

[jobaba]

Originally Posted by Forever Blue

My jobs don't work that way. One of them is only open 10 hrs a day, I think, so I could try to see about 4 10's, but I doubt the boss will do it. It's just a few of us in that position & just myself & 2 higher-ups in the summer mos.

Retail does longer shifts too.

There's a big difference between coverage jobs and productivity measured jobs.

If it was a laid back coverage job, I'd probably want 4-10s too.

[CCS414]

We started prior to COVID. 4 10s. Love it. Take a Monday off now I've got a 4 day weekend to drive down to SoCal and go to the beach. It's common in my industry or at the very least 4 9s and a 4hr day on Friday.

[Bruegel]

My official weekly hours, to start with, are 35 hours/week (7 hours a day). Regardless, I am employing my brain that cannot just turn on and off on the clock. Therefore, it is specifically written in the internal rules that we don't have set times during the day, - just overall 35 hours should be reported.

This is all to say that I consider myself having a "latent" 4 day-week. If I feel I pushed my brain close to 10-12 hours Mon-Wed or Thu, I am slacking off on Fri. All of this of course implies a 100% remote job.

[sholomar]

I work 4-shift rotation... Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday one week...

Wednesday, Thursday the next week.

I like it, when I can avoid any overtime, which I try to do whenever possible as I live fairly minimalist.

I like having off during the week, I like never having to work more than 3 days at a time. I get long breaks, and no unpaid lunch break, so my 12 hour shifts are 12 hours, not 12.5 hours... that saves me 30 minutes each day over the "unpaid lunch" scam employers pull.

[luo2013]

Originally Posted by Tzaphkiel

i tried four 10-hour days work schedule, and it was too exhausting. So I don't like it.

My favorite schedule was a 5-4-9, which was every other Friday off, and working 9-hour days (Mon-Fri, Mon-Thur) with one of those being an 8-hour day instead. I love that schedule. Because there are enough holidays that combined with the 5-4-9 schedule, i had lots of 4 day weekends without the exhaustion of 10-hour days.


tack on a couple of days leave and it was easy to get a week off at a time.

I did that for several years at my old fed job! Except I took every other Monday off, and the Friday before (payday) was my 8 hour day (so left early before my 3 day weekend). I loved with those Monday holidays fall on my compressed day, I’d get a 4 day weekend! The extra hour for 8 days a pay period wasn’t too noticeable, most of the time. I ended up going back to a regular schedule when we had to work overtime, so I could keep my weekends, but I did enjoy it.

Currently I work at a nonprofit where I have a phone shift so any type of compressed schedule wouldn’t work. But if I had a different role with no phone shift, i’d consider a compressed schedule. Though getting off at 4pm every day is nice…

[leadfoot4]

Over an almost 40 year career, with a large corporation, I worked a number of different schedules. Each one had it's benefits as well as it's down side. One of the departments that I worked in, tried the 4-10 schedule, but for me I thought it was a drag. Why?

Our normal start time was 6AM. A bit early, however, you were on the road, heading for work when traffic was very light. When we were working the "normal" 5-8 schedule, that meant that we'd be leaving work at 2:30PM, a solid hour before the traffic density would be ramping up, which was good. But on the 4-10 schedule, our quitting time was 4:30PM, putting us out right in the thick of "rush hour", and that flat out sucked, big time, especially in the winter.

[selhars]

I do four 10s. Off every Friday.
LOVE it!

And for about 10 weeks I was able to take leave on Mondays, and during that time had Mondays AND Fridays off, so worked only T, W, Th -- with a four day weekend F- M.

Loved THAT even more.
So much so that IF I were to ever work part-time in retirement, I'd only commit to working T, W, Th. Oh my word, a four-day weekend every week was so great.