I had 4-day weeks with a 20% loss of pay for a few years. It made a disproportionately big difference in my everyday life. Felt a lot less stress. The downside

I had 4-day weeks with a 20% loss of pay for a few years. It made a disproportionately big difference in my everyday life. Felt a lot less stress. The downside was that I had to be very careful with which meetings to attend, because they now had a noticeable effect in my weekly coding, so as a result I was kind of out of the loop most of the time.