What would you choose: 8 hrs x 5 days/week, 6 hrs x 6 days/week or 9 hrs x 4 days/week? (best, shift)

[luzianne]

I have worked three 12 hour days a week and four 9 hour days a week as well as five 8 hour days. The more days off, the better!

[Bo]

I'd gladly give up 10% of my pay for 3-day weekends. 9 x 4

[ddm2k]

Originally Posted by Bo

I'd gladly give up 10% of my pay for 3-day weekends. 9 x 4

You might get a 10% raise... longer days may push you into qualifying for shift differential!

[NJmann]

9x4 for sure

[Ron61]

I’d like 10 hrs a day x 4 days, Monday-Thursday. After so many years of 70 hour work weeks a 40 hour week would seem like one continuous vacation.

[Monacles]

It would depend a lot on the job. A job with a lot of downtime or waiting to work is a lot easier to work in nine or ten hour spurts than manual labor or a desk job where you actively work the entire shift.

It also depends on whether additional hours will be piled on to the shift. Adding a couple hours of overtime to eight hours is a long day but adding two hours to a ten hour day and then having to come back and work another ten or twelve hours is very different.

[ContraPagan]

What I already have, 8x5. I work M-F, 8 to 5 PM with an hour for lunch, every weekend completely free.

[Steve McDonald]

Originally Posted by Azelk

What would you choose:
8 hours x 5 days/week
6 hours x 6 days/week or
9 hours x 4 days/week?

You left out my choice of no hours, seven days a week.

[AcresHomes44]

I'd rather do 10/4, but I currently do 8 x 5. Friday is a lax day at our job because employees hustle during the week so they can kind of kick back Fridays.

[RamenAddict]

My office has 9.5x4 and I don’t think it is popular at all. The rest of us have 7.5x5 and it is so flexible (you can add onto those 7.5-hour days to take a day off during the week if you want, without taking vacation) that there is no benefit to the 9.5 unless you have a long commute. Basically we just have to get our 7.5 in between 6:30-6 and can take a 3-hour lunch if we need to in order to go to the doctor, so it is pretty easy to schedule a lunchtime or late afternoon appointment. There are some that I haven’t been able to avoid, but more often than not, I can schedule something at 4 or 11:30 and avoid having to take any sick time.