How should I approach asking my firm (small boutique) if I can go to 75% hours for 75% pay. I plan on asking at my second year mark. I don’t necessarily have a “reason” (no kids, for example) I just want to work less. Lol. Anyone have experiencing approaching this topic?

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Careful you don’t end up taking a pay cut and still getting stuck working the same amount of hours, which is usually what happens.

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Seems like a logistical nightmare

I tried it and didn’t really like it, but it did take some pressure off of me. I also tried converting to hourly and didn’t love that either. Thankfully, the work demand was still there, so the firm had no problem with me going back to 100%. Didn’t last long though. I left to go in-house.

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Hours are way better. Pay is the same as my last small firm. There are some trade offs though.
- still have “unlimited” PTO although I actually have to request it. I’ve still worked on time off but not as much.
- Instead of billables, there’s pressure to hit certain artificial deadlines for company metrics.
- It takes much longer to get guidance on simple questions because everyone punts to someone else in a different role.

Aside from reduced hours and no billables, the their overall attitude is “just get it done and fix it later if you have to” and they really do not punish for mistakes.

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Just wanted to chime in here to strongly support the validity of wanting to work less simply for your own sake!

If you keep advocating for yourself like this - you’re going to be great in the long-run no matter what 😉

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Thank you!!

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