I recently returned to work after a long term illness, I went back on a 6 week phased return doing half my contracted hours for the first 2 weeks, then increased by an hour for the next 2 weeks then another hour for the last 2 weeks.
I still haven't returned to my full contract hours and I am using holiday to make up my hours. I don't see me working my full contract hours again (even thought I want to) as I struggle with the hours I am doing at the moment.
I can't decide if I am best carrying on using some holiday to make the hours up or to reduce my hours now. I keep thinking that maybe I will start feeling better and be able to increase my hours but I think I know deep down thats not going to be possible.