Rachel Feintzeig
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first heard Aug 2019
last heard Nov 2024
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Is Cutting Your Hours the Key to Finding Work-Life Balance? · 4 Jun 2024
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There could definitely be repercussions.
It might be hard to get back into full-time work if that's something you want to do.
Down the line, if you're thinking of this as, I'm going to pull back for a few years and then I'd like to ramp up my career again, it's not that it's impossible, but it certainly could hinder your efforts there.
It could impact your future earnings.
If you're kind of pulling back on pay now and then starting from a lower standard, like anything in life and in work, there certainly could be an impact.
But that doesn't mean for a lot of people that it's not worth trying.
One thing would be whether anyone else has ever done this.
Although I certainly heard from people who made the ask and no one had ever done this in their organization.
So it's not to say you can't try it if you're the first one.
Also how your company thinks about flexibility, things like remote work, how your work is divided up, how much control you have over your work versus having to kind of answer to clients is a big one.
And you also might want to do things like think through your job description and kind of
get a sense of where different kinds of work could go and how work is divided at your company.
From the people I talked to, there were some pushback around pay, people who heard from managers who wanted to kind of bump them down a pay grade, so reducing their pay even more than just being commensurate with their hours.
This question of if you'll be doing the same kind of caliber of work as you were before, if you'll be using the same skills, managers can be hesitant to try this.
But again, that doesn't mean that it's not possible to kind of convince them.
The first thing I heard, and this was from a career expert named Catherine Valentine, was you don't want to lead with your personal problems or lead with something super negative.
You want to come from a position of strength.
So even though you might be exhausted and burned out and working way too much, that doesn't mean that you should start the conversation there.
She suggested starting by laying out goals.
everything you've accomplished recently and everything that you're on track to accomplish.
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