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Re:Working fewer hours would make us more productive by TranquilMarmot on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @11:58AM (#10844315)
This happens where I work- one of my coworkers is here Monday - Thursday (10 hour days) but takes Friday off. He's the only one with knowledge of a lot of our legacy systems, so a lot of potential work doesn't happen on Fridays. I'd argue that more of us should learn what he knows to avoid "hit by a bus syndrome" but we don't have enough spare man hours to devote to that.
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Re:Working fewer hours would make us more productive by Drdrdrq on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @01:47PM (#10845107)
You could also just follow his lead and take Fridays off... :)

Seriously though, no man should be irreplaceable because of his knowledge, this is some serious risk you are taking.

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