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Planning Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 29+ planning jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and compressed weeks—for a better work-life balance. 13 new this week. Hiring companies include Anglia Components, Experian, and Parsons Corporation.

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9-day fortnights 10
compressed weeks 14
generous PTO 12
unlimited PTO 8
best places to work 14

Updated October 24, 2026

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Manufacturing Planner

Arista Networks · Remote · Mexico City, Mexico

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Project Coordinator Leadership & Team Development

&samhoud · Hybrid · Utrecht, Netherlands

84 · Great4 Day Work Week

Specialist Semi-Skilled Technician

University of Surrey · Onsite · Guildford, UK

67 · GoodGenerous PTO£30k – £33k

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Specialist Mechanical Technician

University of Surrey · Onsite · Guildford, UK

67 · GoodGenerous PTO£41k – £45k

Employability Officer

University of Nottingham · Hybrid · Nottingham, UK

66 · GoodGenerous PTO£30k – £36k

Senior Biopharmaceutical Representative

NEW

Amgen · Hybrid · Tongliao, China

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

QC Training Coordinator

NEW

Sanofi · Hybrid · Geel, Flanders, Belgium

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

6-month internship: Supply chain coordination

Sanofi · Hybrid · Neuville-sur-Saône, France

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Production Management Assistant

14d

BBC · Onsite · Glasgow, UK

80 · GreatCompressed Work Week£25k – £30k

Traineeship Service Management

3mo

AFAS Software · Hybrid · Leusden, Netherlands

80 · Great4 Day Work Week

Research Data Analyst Associate

NEW

Northwestern University · Onsite · Evanston, IL, USA

54 · DecentGenerous PTO$57k – $70k

Biopharmaceutical Representative – Repatha

Amgen · Hybrid · Nanchang, China

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Product Operations Lead

Tennr · Onsite · New York City, NY, USA

54 · DecentUnlimited PTO$165k – $190k

Change Manager

14d

Phoenix Group · Hybrid · Dublin, Ireland

70 · GreatGenerous PTO€38k – €48k

Change Manager

14d

Phoenix Group · Hybrid · Dublin, Ireland

70 · GreatGenerous PTO€55k – €65k

IT Audit Manager

2mo

Phoenix Group · Hybrid · Edinburgh +2 more

70 · GreatGenerous PTO£65k – £80k

Planning Engineer

18d

CERN · Hybrid · Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

64 · GoodGenerous PTOCHF 9k

Network Project Manager

11d

Meritis · Onsite · Paris, Île-de-France, France

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Junior Planner

17d

Costain · Hybrid · Brighton, UK

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

Junior Planner

21d

Costain · Onsite · Peterborough, England, UK

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

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Employers hiring for Planning on this page include Anglia Components, Experian, and Parsons Corporation. Planning roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Planning is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Planning roles span the full seniority range — we list 68 open roles requiring Planning across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Planning hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Planning roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Planning candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Planning on current listings.

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