What No One Tells You About A Four-Day Work-Week

You are paid less for showing increased productivity.

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One hot January afternoon, my phone wouldn’t stop buzzing. It thrilled me to see so many notifications on Medium. My story had gone viral — my excitement had touched the roof. While you are still figuring out what all that means — in my naivety, I thought I had cracked the code to make money on this platform.

I decided I have to go part-time, and guess what? In less than two months, I did.

I had this amazing boss at the time who herself was a part-timer as she is a young mother of two beautiful babies. She was fully supportive of my wanting to pursue my writing ambitions. She said to me and I remember — “Asmita, it’s a simple change that I need to make in the system to reflect your reduced work hours and that’s it — You can stop working Fridays.”

So after one conversation, one email, and a hell of a lot of contemplation — I was working for four days a week from Monday to Thursday.

Did it help me in improving my writing quality?

You’d assume that one extra day would enable you to write a lot more or at least create a better writing productivity system. But no — it didn’t happen the way I thought it would. More time…