Anyone have real experience with turning your full time role into a reduced hours arrangement, like say 20 hours a week? What worked well and what were the shortcomings?

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Knew someone who moved to four days a week, but agency never respected the agreement and they always ended up working (in some capacity) on the day they were supposed to be off.

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Pretty sure this is always what happens.

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I was wondering about this too.

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That is my dream. But I don’t know anyone who has done this.

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Or you could just freelance.

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Need steady. Freelance too much hunting for gigs, much clerical stuff.

But if you made it a 20 hours thing, for a flat rate, with any additional hours billable at a certain rate, that should protect you.

I did this during my last year as creative lead for an in-house brand. The team was already going through restructuring so I offered to continue my services in a part time freelance role for 8 months rather than leave outright, in order to assist with restructuring from a less direct position. Not sure it would work in this market when there are an abundance of desperate job candidates. I did this in 2019 and had a lot more leverage then.

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