In another comment I mentioned the USPTO's part-time program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24729649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24729649 I can

In another comment I mentioned the USPTO's part-time program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24729649 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24729649 I can say unequivocally that at the USPTO as a patent examiner you would not be expected to squeeze 5 days of work into however many days you work per week. You work a certain number of "production" hours and you are expected to get a certain amount of "count" per production hour. So, as the number of production hours you have decreases, your count expectations decrease proportionally as well.