Moving to a 4 day week ...

[Jeebo72]

renewed contract for 6 months, asked for rate rise, got, then asked if I can do a 4 day week, got. So same money, 4 days a week! Bingo. Happy days.

[bobhope]

Nice,

so you got a 25% rate increase? Not too shabby at all.

[cojak]

So an overall 20% drop then?

But I'm not knocking it mind, it was a reasonable compromise and you got what you wanted...

Edit: - Ah they gave you a rise and asked you to take a day off to pay for it? Can't complain at that!

[Mich the Tester]

[Jeebo72]

So an overall 20% drop then?

But I'm not knocking it mind, it was a reasonable compromise and you got what you wanted...

I tried not to work out how much money I was losing by being a lazy git!

[moorfield]

renewed contract for 6 months, asked for rate rise, got, then asked if I can do a 4 day week, got. So same money, 4 days a week! Bingo. Happy days.

Result, and through the summer too.



I dropped to 4 days/week at last clientco due to a cap on billing days and loved it. If I could do it on every gig in the future I would.

[Churchill]

Result, and through the summer too.



I dropped to 4 days/week at last clientco due to a cap on billing days and loved it. If I could do it on every gig in the future I would.

I try not to recruit contractors whose productivity increases when they're away from the computer...

[NotAllThere]

I tried not to work out how much money I was losing by being a lazy git!

It's ok. At some point, they'll ask you to do five days again, and then you'll be quids in.

My first contract was at £23 an hour. At renewal that was upped to £25, at my request, but the condition, from the client, was that I now work forty hour weeks, instead of thirty-five. Back in the days of steam-driven computers, that extra £195 a week was not to be sneezed at.

[DieScum]

I did this once when I really hated the job but couldn't find anything else. Came to renewal time and I asked to switch to 4 days a week.

One of the best things I have ever done on reflection. Went from being miserable and hardly having any time to myself (up in the dark, back in the dark, lacking sleep) to ... well enjoying myself a lot more.

I think it's a percentage thing.

5-2 = seems like you are working all the time
4-3 = you're off almost half the time

[Durbs]

Ah, the 4 day week.

I did 6 months on 4-dayers. Didn't get paid for the missing day but the sheer loveliness of the short week more than made up for it. Would certainly do it again.