I'm starting a 5-4-9 work schedule in April

[Bernadine]

Anyone else do it?  In a two week pay period, I'll do 8 9-hour days, 1 8-hour day (Friday) and 1 day off (the other Friday).  I've gone back and forth about it, but I'm excited to try it out now.

[livinitup]

How do you request something like that?

[melodramatic26]

i would love this. To have any day off during the week would be amazing, even just every other friday. - sometimes getting a 4 day weekend?? Hells yes. Congrats!!

[tigress]

I would love something like that. LOVE. H works 4 10 hour days currently. I'm so jealous.

[penelope]

I would love something like that too. DH works 4 10 hours days when he is not in the middle of his busy season, and I am always soo jealous. Ooh, a Friday home with no kids....what heaven!

[melissa]

Fed here too but with two young kids I can't take advantage of the AWS days, however, I'm lucky enough to work from home one day a week so I'll take what I can get. Enjoy your three day weekend every other weekend!

[Bernadine]

I wish I could work from home- we don't do it in my office.

I really wanted to do the 4-10, but my commute would add up to a REALLY long day.

[lightbulbsun]

I used to work 4 10 hour days and I loved it. It was soooo nice to have the 3 day weekends.

[Deleted]

I had this schedule at my job and I loved it.

[Deleted]

That sounds really nice. I bet you will come to really like it!

[miss1180]

you'll love it! DH is a federal employee and does this now and really likes it. He has every other Friday off. I'm a SAHM right now, so its nice to be able to do something as a family on a day when places aren't as busy as they are on the weekend. DH loves skiing (i don't LOL), so he'll sometimes use his day off to do that. Sometimes we get projects done around the house.... I think any extra time off work that you can get is nice!

[orangeblossom]

I do. I've done it for years. I like it. I've done Monday's as my day off, and I've done Friday's. I definitely prefer Monday's.

Enjoy your new schedule.

[sangria]

I work this schedule with every other Friday off. It's nice to schedule doctor appts on the Friday off if possible so you can bank sick time. My only caveat is that 9 hours may not seem like a big difference from 8, but taking one day off here and there hurts more.

[janiejones]

I did this at work, we called it 9/80 (80 hours in 9 days).
I loved it. Every other Friday off was a no brainer, especially because I have a moderate commute to work, so it was genius for the saved mileage alone.

[Deleted]

DH has this- they call it a 9/80 schedule. It's great. Allows for extra family time or on days like today, allows him to be home with the sick kid while I'm at work.