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Recent thread on midlevels asking for Fridays off prompted this poll.
With the pandemic there has been some societal momentum toward a 4 day work week. Whether this is 4x10 or 4x something else remains to be seen. What is clear is that this movement is expecting full time benefits.
Our medical group defines full time as 4.5 days per week, or 4 days per week plus call of ‘moderate frequency and intensity’ which is usually at least 4 times per month and requires physical presence in the hospital. This was one of the major attractions of the job to me, and I’ve been here for almost twenty years (first job out of training). Things have changed in the last 2 years due to staffing shortages in my group and my family’s needs so I no longer have every Monday off, but I still take one full day off nearly every week, and any time I make an exception I take a ‘comp’ day somewhere else that month. Once a month I work 6 days per week as part of my call. My days are rarely 8 hours, more like 9-10 with minimal lunch, but occasionally shorter, and frankly I think most docs working 5 days per week also work 9-10+ hours per day so I think I’m still working ‘less’ than a 5 day per week doc.
My goal is to drop to 3 days per week as soon as we have the staffing to do it. My the time my youngest goes to college in 7 years I plan to be at 2 days or even less. None of this is financially driven, it’s driven by values, priorities, and the reality of being… gulp… “late 40s”.
Feel free to talk about your work arrangement, its pros/cons, how your needs/wants have changed over your career. Do you want to taper your working schedule as you go through your career, how do you want that to change or not as you approach and enter retirement? What do you see your colleagues wanting, or employees (if you have your own employees)? What role do you see < 5 days per week playing in your future, your business’s, society’s?
For the poll, you can choose more than one answer. Lordosis, I expect no fewer than 3 from you.
If your work is highly variable, pick an average over the course of a month or quarter.
With the pandemic there has been some societal momentum toward a 4 day work week. Whether this is 4x10 or 4x something else remains to be seen. What is clear is that this movement is expecting full time benefits.
Our medical group defines full time as 4.5 days per week, or 4 days per week plus call of ‘moderate frequency and intensity’ which is usually at least 4 times per month and requires physical presence in the hospital. This was one of the major attractions of the job to me, and I’ve been here for almost twenty years (first job out of training). Things have changed in the last 2 years due to staffing shortages in my group and my family’s needs so I no longer have every Monday off, but I still take one full day off nearly every week, and any time I make an exception I take a ‘comp’ day somewhere else that month. Once a month I work 6 days per week as part of my call. My days are rarely 8 hours, more like 9-10 with minimal lunch, but occasionally shorter, and frankly I think most docs working 5 days per week also work 9-10+ hours per day so I think I’m still working ‘less’ than a 5 day per week doc.
My goal is to drop to 3 days per week as soon as we have the staffing to do it. My the time my youngest goes to college in 7 years I plan to be at 2 days or even less. None of this is financially driven, it’s driven by values, priorities, and the reality of being… gulp… “late 40s”.
Feel free to talk about your work arrangement, its pros/cons, how your needs/wants have changed over your career. Do you want to taper your working schedule as you go through your career, how do you want that to change or not as you approach and enter retirement? What do you see your colleagues wanting, or employees (if you have your own employees)? What role do you see < 5 days per week playing in your future, your business’s, society’s?
For the poll, you can choose more than one answer. Lordosis, I expect no fewer than 3 from you.
If your work is highly variable, pick an average over the course of a month or quarter.
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