If you end up doing 40+ hours anyway, and losing out on a day's pay?
I'm just wondering has anyone managed to do a 4 day week in a office environment successfully?
I've only been back to work 3 weeks now and work in a large firm where they were more than happy to allow me to use parental leave to reduce to 4 days (and get paid for 4), but I'm expected to do the exact same job in these reduced hours.
I get up at 6am, leave at 7am, drop baby to creche, make the commute to work and get there for 9am. It's so busy I don't even have time for a cup of tea, let alone lunch... leave at 5pm, make the commute back, collect baby at 6.30pm (11 hours later 
). Put her to bed at 7pm, and log back onto my laptop until 10pm.
It's all worth it to have one day midweek with my little one, but I'm wondering are my company taking the piss????