Re:Future of work will be 5-hour days, 4-day workweek, flexi...
by balfirevic on Saturday May 29, 2021 @01:52PM
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> Exactly. I don't care if someone steps out to run an errand or pick the kids up from school or to hit the gym, but they need to be available with some regularity during core working hours for any collaborative work to proceed.
But the starting premise was that some people would work 5 hour days, there's plenty of overlap there. It's not much different than separate time zones, as another commenter pointed out.
Re:Future of work will be 5-hour days, 4-day workweek, flexi...
by PragmaticPulp on Saturday May 29, 2021 @01:58PM
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> It's not much different than separate time zones, as another commenter pointed out.
Separate timezones are fine as long as there is some overlapping core hours.
If that's not possible, the work needs to be more cleanly divided across timezones.
I've had to collaborate across different timezones (as an IC). It's rough. We tried to take turns staying up late so everyone suffered equally, but it's still brutal.
Maybe this is true in some feature factory somewhere, but every tech company I've worked with has required synchronous collaboration to get things done.
> The benefit is no one cares if I spend sometime during the day running errands, getting lunch, or exercising - as long as I can respond to them in a reasonable amount of time.
Exactly. I don't care if someone steps out to run an errand or pick the kids up from school or to hit the gym, but they need to be available with some regularity during core working hours for any collaborative work to proceed.
When one person starts taking excessive liberties with schedule flexibility, everyone else is forced to adapt their schedules to that one person. It's not good for everyone else on the team.