Working fewer hours per week can actually be really hard. Fewer hours means more workers, but adding more workers means additional communication, planning, and

Working fewer hours per week can actually be really hard. Fewer hours means more workers, but adding more workers means additional communication, planning, and other costs. This is especially true for "knowledge work" since you can't brain-dump everything you know onto a co-worker. If your job involves a service component as well (e.g. like lawyering), that probably means you have also to be on call in addition to the hours you spend working. And then there are tasks where workers need to put in 40 hour work weeks to get anything done because of how long to get up to speed (e.g. I'd personally have a very hard time getting any meaningful coding, writing, or art done if I was limited to working only two hours a day or one day a week on that project). I think the solution here is probably not so much a focus on part-time work but on seasonal work or jobs where sabbaticals are a thing.