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Re:Ask HN: How do you scale salary for part-time work? by tonyarkles on Monday August 19, 2019 @06:04PM (#20742246)
> The corollary of this is that you'd really better make sure you have little fixed overhead time for your workers if they are working fractional time.

That was one of the big things that me working part-time on a team helped with: they significantly cut down on the mandatory meeting overhead; early on a significant fraction of my time (40%?) was spent in meetings. We cut that down and everyone on the team benefited.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you scale salary for part-time work? by londons_explore on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @03:05AM (#20744470)
Not enough people are brave enough to just walk out of non-useful meetings.

By demanding an agenda upfront, attendees can decide if it's really useful to attend, and sending out notes afterwards means people who didn't attend can catch up. As a bonus, send the agenda beforehand with collaborative editing, and lots of things end up getting resolved before the meeting even happens.

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