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How did that conversation go with your manager when you first wanted to reduce your hours? I had a similar conversation about 8 years ago, moving from 5 days t

• itamarst 8y ago
  Typical response is never "awesome, let's do that" because... why should they? They'd prefer you to work 5 days a week. So they'll push back. But, as an existing employee you're valuable: you know a lot of things that take a lot of effort for new employee to learn. And so quite often the answer is just "yes", or stalling but "fine, ok, yes" if you push at it. Of course, some places the managers have no respect at all for employees or understanding of your value. You probably don't want to work those places at all, and if you do this won't work. If you want a detailed howto, I wrote a book about it: https://codewithoutrules.com/3dayweekend/ https://codewithoutrules.com/3dayweekend/