3-day week: which days?

julzw wrote: Oh and true about the public holidays, that's a real bonus. The stinker is though that if your child is in day care, you will still have to pay them on public holidays.

Depends on the day care. We pay 50% on public holidays.

I do monday, thursday, saturday. I felt it was easier on DS if he went monday & thursday & then had days off inbetween to be with me. But then I have a GF who does tues,wed,thurs & finds the consecutive days work well for her. It's a tough choice.

But yep, definitely go with mondays so you get Public hols!

Hi I've just started back at work 15 hrs a week - Mon, Wed, Fri.  My reasons for this were:

*Variety - no two days in a row are the same.

* Stat day holidays are usually a Monday or Friday - so I will get more days off while I still get paid for the stat holiday.

Good luck with returning to work.  It doesn't take long to get back into the swing of things.

Haha, well seeing as this has been bumped, I'll update it - after consultation with the carers, we went with Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday. I'm glad we chose that option as it gets us in a bit more of a routine, but she is one very tired little girl come Wednesday evening! (She's in 8.30-5 for the 3 days).

I just started back today and went with Mon, Tues and Fri. I can change it but ill see how it goes for a few weeks. I am tired today though!