Working fewer hours would make us more productive

Re:Working fewer hours would make us more productive by throwaway7767 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @07:55AM (#10842979)

I never said it was for everyone, but I suspect people magnify the expected issues a lot.

Everyone knows I won't be here on wednesdays, so we try to arrange things so I'm not a bottleneck during that time. If some really important deadline shows up, I'll just work the one wednesday and take thursday off instead, it's not a big deal. I haven't needed to yet though.

Besides, assuming you're not on a really tiny team, if many parts of your project hinge on one person with no available backup, you have bigger problems related to project management.

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Re:Working fewer hours would make us more productive by daveguy on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:09AM (#10843027)

Or you're an early startup. Sometimes hinged-on-one-person is all you have because there are only a few people with some non-overlapping talents.

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Re:Working fewer hours would make us more productive by ktistec on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:21AM (#10843078)

The definition of a really tiny team.

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Re:Working fewer hours would make us more productive by s73v3r on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @01:25PM (#10844960)

And? If you know that the person isn't there on Wednesday, you adapt.

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