Assume you could work 3 full (say 9-5) or 4 shorter days (say 9-2.30) which would you choose and why? And which days would you choose to have off?

Teusday to Thursday 9-5 because it would be an absolute doddle and long weekends yay!

What zedsdead says.

But I’d really like 12 til 1 with an hour lunch break please.

3 short days. If you’ve got to get up and go to work, you might as well get it over and done with.
Save on travel and work lunch costs too,plus minimise risk of doing additional hours.

I’d do 3 full.. and i’d work tues / weds / thu. if i had to touch the weekened, I’d prefer mon/tues/weds because you’d get bank hols too 😉 (unless they’d be unpaid, so it could be a tactical decision!)

Why? Whole days off to do stuff like ride bike of course! Less fragmentation of my personal time even when the weather is dodgy.

depends on your home life and how much yours / your families life revolves around being home.

If you’ve got young kids – or lots or pets or whatever then you’d probably prefer to have more of each day at home. If you don’t then you’d probably prefer to have more whole days off as its more opportunity to not be at home.

Personally I’ve always dislike working part days. Not least in my first job where all my hours were in the evening, so although I had most of the day ‘off’ you can’t relax and absorb yourself in anything because you work is looming. It didn’t help that the work was within a prison that I needed an escort into – if I wasn’t on time I couldn’t get into work at all.

So now even though I’ve been working for myself for the last 15 years I’m very binary – work all day (often til late at night) or all day off.

you’d get bank hols too (unless they’d be unpaid, so it could be a tactical decision!)

In that same job my sort of opposite number had the day shifts. My hours were spread across 3 evenings – his were on a monday and tues. Mostly on the monday though. We were sessional – no work no pay – so he lost about 10% or his yearly income to Bank Holidays

8 till 3 with just 15 minutes to grab a sarnie for lunch.
Plenty of the day left then.

Of those 2 options, 3 full days.

I do about 30 hours whenever I want through the week and its about 30 too many no matter when I do them.

I do 4 six hour days a week.

It would be easier personally to do 3 eight hour days, then I could have one day for household jobs and one day for me/riding.

Unfortunately, that pattern would make actually doing my job pretty much unmanageable, so I’ll have to make do with what I have.

Still gutted I missed a job which was 4-on 4-off and alternating morning/afternoon shifts.

Seeing as I’m not a morning person anyway that would to me have been 12 days off for 4 days work and 4 days zombie-blur mornings.

Teusday to Thursday 9-5 because it would be an absolute doddle and long weekends yay!

This. Except I’d do Tuesday to Thursday.

3 long ones please. Actually if the option was there it’d be 2 very long ones and 3 days off.

I do stretches of 12hr days (up to 7 in a go.) It can be pretty tiring at times, but the reward is I get anything up to 8 days off fairly regularly, combined with my regular annual leave and the work/life balance can be pretty good.

If this wasn’t an option, i’d happily do 3 x 12 hr days a week, not much of a drop from a full time 40hr week and 4 days off.

I went down to 4 days last year so this is something I’ve already done 😀

Try to have days off during the week as I can get so much more done, everyone else is at work so everything’s open for me to use without the mad weekend rush. Prefer Sundays off and two consecutive days midweek but that’s not always possible. As long as I get at least one day off midweek (guaranteed) then I’m happy. No kids to worry about so that makes things easier. The only downside is all my riding (and non-riding) mates seem to work M-F 9-5 so my time off and theirs doesn’t always align, although I know some of them are very jealous of me 😈

I do work 12-1 with a 1h lunchbreak 🙂

3 full days.

Mind I used to work monday tuesday 9-9pm, wednesday 9-5 and thursday 9-2.30pm. 3 day weekends were great but that mon/tues/wed was brutal.

much happier with mon-fri 9-5 now.

Id take the three full days as for me 4 short days would likely lead to a few of them being full ones as things happen. IF you know that you can just get up an walk away then 4 short days could work – You could easily get a local ride in on those evenings and get all the jobs doe that prevent you riding at the weekend.

Personal preference would always be flexy time. Longer days in winter and when the weather is bad then take the odd full day off or half day when the sun is shining.