Amazingly well. When my son (first child) was 4 months old, my wife & I were struggling to keep on top of everything and stay happy. I'd tried working 9 days of every fortnight and doing longer days to make up for the 10th day's hours, but that didn't help. (Bedtimes have always been hard with my son, even still now he's 3).
I asked my then employer if I could drop to 4 days a week, pro-rata, and was surprised when the answer was yes! I had a few months last year on 5 days again, and it was still too much.
We're lucky enough to be able to afford the reduction in salary & benefits, and I won't go back to 5 days if I can avoid it.
For me the benefits are:
* more time with family.
* better time with family, because I have more energy.
* more time for chores, paperwork etc
* more time,energy & motivation for my own interests
* more time to cook good food & make/mend things reduces costs mitigating the salary reduction.
More interesting is that - counterintuitively - I still get about the same amount of work done as on 5 days, and I think it's better quality too.
I have nothing but good things to say about 4-day weeks and would love to see more of it in tech industry (and others too).
I asked my then employer if I could drop to 4 days a week, pro-rata, and was surprised when the answer was yes! I had a few months last year on 5 days again, and it was still too much.
We're lucky enough to be able to afford the reduction in salary & benefits, and I won't go back to 5 days if I can avoid it.
For me the benefits are: * more time with family. * better time with family, because I have more energy. * more time for chores, paperwork etc * more time,energy & motivation for my own interests * more time to cook good food & make/mend things reduces costs mitigating the salary reduction.
More interesting is that - counterintuitively - I still get about the same amount of work done as on 5 days, and I think it's better quality too.
I have nothing but good things to say about 4-day weeks and would love to see more of it in tech industry (and others too).