[yootyootr]

honest answer: both my partner and I work, but she works four days per week to balance childcare. If I worked four days then we would have a whole day together to enjoy hanging out with our son.

My commute to the office is over an hour (London, England) from my home, so returning home for lunch is not an option.

[Cthulhu_]

In NL, working less hours (24, 32 or 36 hours) is normalized, to the point where some families have a schedule where either parent has one day a week off, the kids spend one day at their grandparents, and the remaining two days in day care (or something to that effect).

The 4-day work week is fairly normalized here to try and balance careers for both parents with raising children, so these articles seem really weird to me. The tradeoff is you get paid for 32 hours instead of 40, and any other benefits (holidays, bonuses, expenses, etc) are adjusted according to how much of a percentage of full-time (40 hours/week) you work.