Right now I've given my staff the option of 36 hours per week or 40 hours per week. So basically you can work 8, 8, 8, 8, 4 (half the staff do this, myself included) and the other half work 9, 9, 9, 9, 4. Those Friday afternoons off are like gold to us.
I've also proposed just four nines, but my caveat is you need to work it with your coworkers so we have people in on Mondays and Fridays. So, like, if you want Mon-Thurs at nine hours a day and Fridays off, you have to coordinate with somebody else to be working four nines Tues-Fri. Nobody is really interested in that, which surprised me, but people seem happy with things the way they are and if they aren't happy I'm pretty flexible. Probably my favourite thing about a small business...if we don't like things we can just change them.
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