I see this as the answer for a lot of folks. But having run an office and half a company in the past... I've found that the benefits of a reduced hour work week

I see this as the answer for a lot of folks. But having run an office and half a company in the past... I've found that the benefits of a reduced hour work week are offset by the pressures/stresses of owning a business. The only real saving grace of a 9-5 is that after 5, except on rare circumstances, my time is my time. I'm able to relatively stress free. If I'm running the show there is almost always something else that can be done. So picking reading by a river with some tea will almost always take a backseat to responding to whatever customer email that just came in.