Draft Procedure Proposal: Alternate Work Schedule

I am really excited about this concept! However, I don't see an attachment. I would love to learn more.

Who exactly is "departmental staff?" I'm not sure I've heard that before.

I work an alternate work schedule at my full time job and I couldn't love it more! Also, I am scheduled to begin telecommuting in a few weeks. Those who are already telecommuting are very pleased with the fuel savings and convenience of not having to "get ready" for work. I look forward to those benefits along with the huge amount of money I'll be saving on lunch. I'll only have to drive over for some meetings that I can't Skype into.

When I was a legislative proofreader, we worked 4 nights a week: basically 11-12 hours M, T, & W, and 4-6 hours Th, depending on how the session was going. It was fine, and nobody was too tired to be productive. Fun irrelevant fact: this was back when you could have an ashtray right on your desk and chain-smoke all day!
At OPA, my schedule was 9 hours M-Th and 4 hours Friday. Everyone was happy, except for the part where all the holidays fell on Mondays and we had to blow an hour of AVL several times a year. I'm still pretty salty about that, and it's my only real issue with alternate schedules.
Quadgraphics works 12 hour days, which was a physically & emotionally draining nightmare for me due to the heat and noise and yelling. 12 hour shifts might be too long for frontline staff here for basically the same reasons... ;)
I worked at Farmers for a minute, and my schedule was 10-8:30 S, S, W, & Th. That was awesome. The schedule, anyway.
When I was an independent contractor, I'd work 30 or so hours straight and then do absolutely nothing the rest of the week. That was the best schedule ever and I got to do it for almost seven years before computers got smart enough to replace my ilk.

Now that I'm done bragging about all the fancy jobs I've had, here's some advice for people who are able to telecommute. It will be better for your mental health and easier on your loved ones if you are able to dedicate a room or section of a room for work. When you are working, stay in that room (except for bio breaks and snack expeditions). When you are off work, close the door to that room or screen it off so you don't have to look at it. When I worked at home, I had a dedicated "misery room" with nothing but work stuff and fitness equipment. It really helped.

I'm in the Cataloging department. Telecommuting, sadly, seems out of the question unless we can also have drone delivery of materials to be cataloged; but I'd do 4 10-hour days (or 4 9-hour days and a 4-hour day) in a heartbeat. My boss and her boss and her boss would all have to sign off on it, everyone else in my department would have to agree to it, and then we'd have slap-fights over who got a short Friday and who had to take Wednesday or something -- but I think in the end it would be great. Alternate schedules allow for errands to be run and movies to be seen at times that traffic is lighter and crowds nonexistent. Alternate schedules can make it easier to save AVL for fun stuff, and alternate schedules can help conserve sick leave, as doctor visits can be scheduled for your free weekday. And if you have the type of job where Monday and Tuesday are really busy and there aren't enough hours in the day, alternate schedules can help you stick more hours in those days and fewer hours in others.