I work 1 day and a bit per week for my own business (bookkeeping, so only have to deal with it when actually working). Maggie is in childcare 2 days per week, which leaves me either some me time, or some catch time for housework or shopping etc

I find having some work does take the pressure off me from having to do all the house work, well I still do most of it, but DH understands (most of the time) that I can get busy and the house will be untidy. Also it is nice bringing in a bit of money.

I think I can see where they are coming from in the article. I have seen in with part-time colleagues when I was working full time, they would do 5 days work in their 4 days of actual work time. I suppose it really comes down to the type of work that is being done part-time, I certainly would not work part-time and be on call the rest of the week, I need my time off work.