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Compressed Workweek: Pros & Cons as a Flexible Work Arrangement

Compressed workweek may be the flexible work arrangement to choose as part of your work and family balance management strategy.

First, carefully consider the personal pros and cons.

A compressed workweek has you working 40 hours in fewer than five days. The most widely used schedule is 10 hour days for four days a week.

Another arrangement is called 5-4/9. This is a week of five nine-hour days followed by a week of four nine-hour days, and would give you a day off every other week.

Pro: On the plus side, most employees appreciate having a full day off regularly, while still preserving full-time income.

Pro: The commute to work may be outside the usual rush hour traffic times because of the extended work day, and thus less stressful.

Con: On the con side, an ongoing schedule of ten-hour or nine-hour days, while it may be the norm for some professionals already, can be physically and mentally draining.

Con: Not only is the workweek squeezed into a shorter time frame, but all the after-work activities must also be wedged into the remaining hours of each work day.

Con:  Chronic fatigue caused by current work/family conflict time pressures may or may not be off-set by the regular day off.

Con: Child care coverage to match your compressed work schedule may also be a challenge.

However, some of these down-side issues may not be a concern in your personal circumstances, so this arrangement could work out well, with the regular day off paying personal dividends.

Otherwise, proposing a four day workweek of eight-hour days (32 hours) may be more practical for you.

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