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It's possible to give yourself unapproved 4 day week at megacorps if you are a high performer. Nobody bothers me in Friday and no problems yet.

• GordonS 6y ago
  It depends what kind of company. The company I'm at is a consultancy, so you're (ideally) mostly working on billable customer projects - you are not going to get away with disappearing for a day. And when you're not on a customer project, you are on a 7-week countdown to termination, and are constantly asked by random people what you are doing.
• IkmoIkmo 6y ago
  I get no substantially fewer calls or mail on fridays than on other days. I can get my work done in four days, but I also get work requests with same-day deadlines, either a soft expectation that you can miss sometimes but not structurally, or a hard expectation that you simply can't miss. This is especially the case for friday because clients will often work weekends on the high-priority stuff. Sometimes they rely on something that takes me 2 hours on a friday, if I don't do that, they're stuck till monday. It's just not acceptable in my line of work. I've not really found a good solution. I can get fridays off formally, but then you're not just cutting your salary, you're also cutting chances for promotions (which isn't just a matter of pay, but also a matter of career development, personal development, keeping work interesting and dynamic, status/ego). There's a strong preference for employees with full-availability such that clients have one point of contact, instead of multiple parttimers across the week. And leadership positions are expected to always be working during regular working hours.