I will also post this here, in case more people will see this..
I'm due to go back to work in June and now drafting my letter to request to work 4 days a week instead of 5. I'm a manager and my company has an unwritten policy "no part time managers if team is full time".
I'm planning to work from 8.30am to 5pm Mon - Thurs (previously 8.30am to 4.30pm Mon - Fri) which probably will mean that I will loose some of my current responsibilities to accommodate this request. I personally feel that I could do my current job (tasks) in 4 days, of course my team would have to cover all urgent things on Fridays but they already do that if I'm on holiday. I guess I would need some kind of "debuty" which I already have but this is not a formal arrangement. So, the guestion is, how should I word this to make sure that they can't refuse my request?
Has anyone been in the same situation and has managed to reduce the hours?