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ashleyhuney
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Part timers, how'd you arrange that?
ashleyhuney
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I've been thinking more about asking to go p/t lately, especially after all the positive feedback from my poll yesterday. I have no idea if my company would be cool with it, but my job is secure so I don't think there'd be much harm in asking. So, how did you ask to go p/t? I'm thinking about writing up a proposal with some crunched numbers, but how did you handle spliting of vacation/sick/benefits? And how did you work out your hours? I see pros to both working 5 1/2 days (predictable schedule, easier to match up with pre-school schedules) or 3 full days (only doing DC and commute 3 days, 4 days off in a row) and cons.
Thoughts?
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Re: Part timers, how'd you arrange that?
Glad you're going for it! I work a 90% schedule. So, still part-time, but close to full-time. Basically, I just approached my boss and said "can I do this?" I get paid 90% of my salary, get 90% of my sick and vacation time. Benefits are normally based on a set amount of hours worked. At my office, you had to work more than 25 hours per week to get benefits.
I work four days a week, 8 to 5. I really think that you'll be much more productive with three full days than you would be with five 1/2 days. You'll be amazed what you can get done with so many days off in a row. Also, since commute time is one of your pet peeves about your current schedule, I would think the fewer days of driving you have to do, the better.
Good luck! I hope your boss is open to it!
I basically just told them that when I come back, I'd like to only work 4 days per week instead of 5. My boss was okay with it, so she took it to her boss, got it approved, and then HR was notified.
Being 80% time means that I only accrue 80% of my vacation time, sick time, etc. It's all automatic.
I considered whether I wanted to work all 5 days and just leave earlier, but ultimately decided that not commuting one day was much better than just leaving early every day.
GL!
My situation wasn't permanent so it didn't affect my vacation time or benefits (but my benefits would have been lost had I made a permanent change) but when I approached them about working from home I had a full-on presentation outlining every single thing I thought they could have concerns about or ask about.I know that made a big difference in getting approved - I took the time to look at it from their perspective and they appreciated it.
For you I'd definitely do 3 days instead of 5-hands down!
I wasn't successful, but I'll share in case it helps you put together your proposal.
I asked for a 4 day work week. At first my manager was open to it, but at pay of 80% my current salary. However the problem we ran into and couldn't get a straight answer from HR was (since I am an exempt employee who is not held to a time clock I do a lot of my work before, during and after normal business hours) how does that work and did I really have to take a 20% cut. I work with teams in Japan and Europe plus here in the U.S and put in more than 40 hours each week. So I knew that even if I did not come into work on Fridays I would still be hopping on a call here or there and continue to do some work on Sunday night when Japan gets into the office (their Monday). So I didn't feel it was right to take a 20% paycut for probably not really reducing my hours of work 20%. My boss agreed it would have been odd. Even being back in the workforce for the last few months I just don't see how it would have worked. Although I still really wish I could have a day off - didn't have to be Friday - in addition to the weekend.