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Do what I did. Step 1, Save up 200 vacation hours at company. Step 2, From April-August take a vacation request, every Friday off. Willing to work during dump

Do what I did. Step 1, Save up 200 vacation hours at company. Step 2, From April-August take a vacation request, every Friday off. Willing to work during dumpster fire if needed. Step 3, enjoy your 4 day work week. Note Need to work at a legit company who cares about employees well being. 8 x 4 = 32 hours used per month x 5 months = 160 hours of vacation leaving your 40 hours of vacation for sick/emergency days. You also will earn more vacation during this time for a little bit of wiggle room. This is assuming you do not want to use your vacation for a legit 1-2 week vacation.

jedberg 7y ago
I was forced into a similar situation. I had accrued the maximum vacation accrual, and was going to start losing vacation days. I told my boss I was just going to take off every Friday for the next three months to get low enough to not hit the max.
filoleg 7y ago
Step 1 will be problematic at every single company I encountered that has a fixed number of vacation days, because they all have a cap on how many you can accumulate. Which usually is 2 years worth of vacation time (usually 15-20 days per year, so 30-40 days max), after which you cannot accumulate any more and just start losing them. EDIT: I profusely apologize for this comment. It's been a rough morning, and the math didn't check out in my head at first. Step 1 from the parent comment should work just fine with the number of vacation days I listed, since 30 days * 8 hours = 240 hours.
- monsieurbanana 7y ago
  200 hours is 25 days at 8h/day, so it's fine?
  - filoleg 7y ago
    You are absolutely correct, I profusely apologize for my parent comment. It's been a rough morning, and the math didn't check out in my head at first.
    - toomuchtodo 7y ago
      I hope your day has gotten better. Don’t worry about the math!
hcnews 7y ago
This works if you are a worker/individual-contributor. Very hard to pull off for leaders/managers without the system inherently supporting it.
- jeena 7y ago
  Our architect works 50% and I as the lead developer am going down to 80% soon, it will be interesting to see how it works (or doesn't).
phil248 7y ago
I managed to take 4 day weeks every other week for about 6 months at an old job. It was great! But the only reason I had so much vacation accumulated was because the job offered a lot of PTO but subpar pay, so I couldn't afford the kind of vacations that would merit taking off weeks at a time.
biztos 7y ago
> Need to work at a legit company who cares about employees well being. ... > This is assuming you do not want to use your vacation for a legit 1-2 week vacation. So you need to work at a company who cares about your well-being and also agrees that shorter weeks are better for you than taking actual vacations. (Or of course have more than 25 days off in a year, which lots of people do.)

jedberg 7y ago

I was forced into a similar situation. I had accrued the maximum vacation accrual, and was going to start losing vacation days. I told my boss I was just going to take off every Friday for the next three months to get low enough to not hit the max.

filoleg 7y ago

Step 1 will be problematic at every single company I encountered that has a fixed number of vacation days, because they all have a cap on how many you can accumulate. Which usually is 2 years worth of vacation time (usually 15-20 days per year, so 30-40 days max), after which you cannot accumulate any more and just start losing them. EDIT: I profusely apologize for this comment. It's been a rough morning, and the math didn't check out in my head at first. Step 1 from the parent comment should work just fine with the number of vacation days I listed, since 30 days * 8 hours = 240 hours.

monsieurbanana 7y ago
200 hours is 25 days at 8h/day, so it's fine?
- filoleg 7y ago
  You are absolutely correct, I profusely apologize for my parent comment. It's been a rough morning, and the math didn't check out in my head at first.
  - toomuchtodo 7y ago
    I hope your day has gotten better. Don’t worry about the math!

hcnews 7y ago

This works if you are a worker/individual-contributor. Very hard to pull off for leaders/managers without the system inherently supporting it.

jeena 7y ago
Our architect works 50% and I as the lead developer am going down to 80% soon, it will be interesting to see how it works (or doesn't).

phil248 7y ago

I managed to take 4 day weeks every other week for about 6 months at an old job. It was great! But the only reason I had so much vacation accumulated was because the job offered a lot of PTO but subpar pay, so I couldn't afford the kind of vacations that would merit taking off weeks at a time.

biztos 7y ago

> Need to work at a legit company who cares about employees well being. ... > This is assuming you do not want to use your vacation for a legit 1-2 week vacation. So you need to work at a company who cares about your well-being and also agrees that shorter weeks are better for you than taking actual vacations. (Or of course have more than 25 days off in a year, which lots of people do.)