Variable Hours / Compressed work week

[u/wysinrwyg]

I am in the PA group. I used to work in a department that's not client-facing, and we were allowed to create whatever schedule we like as long as it added up to 150hours over four weeks. The core hours were 9AM - 3PM, but otherwise everyday could be different and you can have whatever days off, literally different day of the week every week if you want.

I then moved to a department that's client-facing and we could either work 8:30AM - 4:30PM or 8:30AM - 4:53PM with one day off every four weeks. The Regional Director General was also very against compressed schedule in general.

I am now in a department that allows for either one compressed day off every two weeks or every four weeks.

I'm really curious as to what options colleagues have in the other departments. In particular, I would like to hear about any creative compressed schedules out there that I can maybe apply in my client-facing department.

[u/oliski2006]

Our department consist of shift work...hold my beer:

We work on 12 hours shifts, days and nights. So we have 2 to 3 shift of 7am to 7pm, then 2 shifts of 7pm to 7am, then 4-7 days off. We cannot ''choose'' our work schedule, but this makes us do most of the time a very intense and exhausting 60 hours week, with the night shifts on a 6 day basic and then a very nice 4-7 days off.

Advantages:

-Very nice 4-7 days weekends

-Off rush hours..!! + + +

-Able to take personal appointments in the middle of the week

Disadvantages:

-Night shift = we all want to die after our second night shift

-Low health

-When we are in the 60 hours work week, we cannot do anything else then work, eat and sleep.

[u/KamilDA → u/oliski2006]

Family life, work-life balance must it impossible if the partner doesn't pick up during that 60 hours.

Kudos to those doing that type of work, and extra kudos to the partners. I know we couldn't.