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I worked 33h weeks in 4 days. I split it up as:-
The early finishes were designed to allow me to pick up my daughter from primary school (my wife, also working part time, covered the other days).
I had to come up with the hours I wanted to work when I moved to flexible working, and the rules were (amongst others):
So there ways no way to do a full working week in 4 days, you could just say "I'll do four 10 hour days please".
Obviously my base salary was cut to 33/37 of normal (as my full time employment contract stated a 37h work week), but the rest of my benefits were kept at 100%. My holiday was also cut accordingly, and I had to account for it in hours (rather than whole days) so taking a a Thursday off cost more hours than a Tuesday. Bank Holidays were also proportionally covered (and that got a bit complicated sometimes).
I loved working a 4 day week, and did it for almost 10 years, some of my colleagues didn't like it as much, mainly because they were too thick to consistently remember that I didn't work on a Monday and would get annoyed when I didn't turn up to meetings they'd arranged despite my calendar saying I was off and me never accepting them (and usually rejecting them with a polite note).
Don't need the flexibility now as daughter is at secondary school, so I'm back to being full time (elsewhere) but WFH.