Ask HN: Would you rather work 4 days per week for 80% salary?

Re:Ask HN: Would you rather work 4 days per week for 80% sal... by vasper on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:52PM (#27158980)

It is doable and in some countries like Switzerland even a common practice to offer an 80% - 100% workload (if you look at https://swissdevjobs.ch/ or any other tech job board you will notice it occurs quite often)

The problem is that an 80% workload for companies also means 80% of the salary which makes sense if someone wants to work part-time, but it's not the implementation of a 4-day work week idea.

Personally, I believe a 4-day work week will sooner or later be a standard, simply because Developers (including myself) waste a lot of their daily time and by having a constrained time-frame they will also be more efficient. In the same time (hopefully) management might reduce the number of meetings forced onto the Dev team.

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Re:Ask HN: Would you rather work 4 days per week for 80% sal... by fetchingwater on Friday May 21, 2021 @11:55AM (#27235674)

The reason I get burned out working 40 hours a week is because I don’t waste time when I’m working / in the office. I can’t seem to “take a break” because I’m getting paid for my time and feel guilty if I do.

I’ve occasionally seen co-workers on YouTube throughout the day, and I’m like, “wtf”.

I don’t see it penalized and I’m not their manager and I’m not tracking their output. I guess if it works for them then it works for them, and no one’s complaining, except my own pride or righteousness.

Maybe that’s what they need to handle a full time work load. But in that case it’s not really full time? It doesn’t feel right to me so at my current place I work significantly reduced amount of hours for a proportional paycut. And I only work when I’m working.

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