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As a parent, I would much rather take that year and use it to shorten my normal working week for as long as possible. With 260 working days a year, you could w
by beart 8y ago
As a parent, I would much rather take that year and use it to shorten my normal working week for as long as possible.
With 260 working days a year, you could work 4 days a week for the first five years of your child's life.
- ams6110 8y agoWhy not just not work for five years, and have the other parent work?
- ahakki 8y agoMoney
- SketchySeaBeast 8y agoAnd the potential death of one's career.
- Haydos585x2 8y agoIn Australia that's not unheard of. Plenty of women (and men) will go to a 3 or 4 day work week for a longer stretch rather than taking a full 12 months off.
- AmericanChopper 8y agoI know a couple of people who permanently negotiated 4 day working weeks after becoming parents. One of them has his daughter at some sort of parent run day care, where each of the parents spends one day a week staffing it, so they all work 4 days (at most) and spend at least one day looking after all the kids.
- nasalgoat 8y agoWho's watching the kid the four days you're working? Watching a baby is a full time job.
- duderific 8y agoPresumably they have day care, nanny or family helping out. As a parent, I'm pretty sure the GP was imagining how nice it would be to have that extra day a week to spend time with their kid, or simply run errands, as the weekends are taken up with kid activities.