Reduced Work Week and Compressed Work Week are a (relatively) new concept that some Annualised Hours Contract workplaces are doing
Reduced: You work 4 days of 7.5 hours, adding up to 30 hours weekly, you get paid the same as if you worked 5 days of 7.5 hours (37.5 hours)
Compressed: You work 4 days of 9.5 hours, adding up to 37.5 hours weekly, you get paid the same as if you worked 5 days of 7.5 hours (37.5 hours)
I’m working 36 hours in four 9-hour days.
I changed to part-time because I was exhausted and close to a burnout, since my brain stayed in work mode for most of Saturday too, and I was hoping to have two actual weekend days.
In the end, by increasing the time I’m not working, I actually managed to train my brain to not thinking about work outside of work. So not only I got the my 3 days weekends but I’m also disconnecting faster during work days.
My productivity also got objectively better, but that just makes me pissed off that I had to take a 10% cut to become a better worker.