To want to drop hours

[molinski]

I've recently been diagnosed with endometriosis. I have terrible periods and pains and so I'm pleased to finally get a diagnosis. My work are very supportive and do what they can to help so I am very fortunate however i am often completely snowed under with work to get through. I work in an office based role full time and the job is in relation to babies and children. We are also ttc if it's worth mentioning. I get terrible back ache, often tummy pains and nauseous, I feel quite on edge and often tearful but I feel this is worse at work. AIBU to reduce my hours temporarily to get me through a bit of a difficult time and try to reduce stress levels?

YANBU. I'm sure if your work is generally supportive, then they'd be glad because at least it means they wouldn't be paying you for times when you're a bit below par.

But would you be able to work out a way to do this that coincides with the times when you're not feeling great?

If you're ttc reducing your hours could affect your maternity pay

@pippistrelle yes they're usually really good. They're looking into options for me so that I could perhaps work from home when AF is here to make life a bit easier for me. At the moment I'm leaving home an hour and 20 before I'm due to start work because the traffic is horrendous (usually journey takes about 35 minutes) and it's the same time to get home so that on top of my working day doesn't help. I understand that is circumstance out of their hands but I just feel that's adding to feeling a bit overwhelmed and when I'm sitting at a desk uncomfortable for a lot of the day too I'm not sure what else to do! I thought I could suggest temporarily dropping a day a week just to see if that makes me feel any better and not so exhausted.

@Lazypuppy yes I'm taking that into account. I'm only thinking of reducing temporarily for now to see how I get on while I'm feeling so poop and stressed out with a lot of things happening at once! Usually they're happy for people to trial changes before it's made concrete.