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Re:4-day workweeks can boost happiness and productivity by dahfizz on Sunday June 20, 2021 @11:50AM (#27571224)
I work in fintech and have a coworker that made a similar deal (4 day weeks for 6 months a year for slightly less pay).

My company treats it the same as vacation time. On the occasion there's something that only he can do but he's not in, it'll have to wait.

He is a "regular" salaried dev on a medium sized team.

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Re:4-day workweeks can boost happiness and productivity by steveBK123 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @02:28PM (#27572644)
How realistic is this for most people/firms though?

I think probably 60-70% of the places I have worked, this sentence " On the occasion there's something that only he can do but he's not in.." would end in "we call his cell".

I was just on a medium-urgent outage the Friday before Memorial Day weekend and 2 teams on the call were calling their on-vacation colleagues for help.

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Re:4-day workweeks can boost happiness and productivity by dahfizz on Sunday June 20, 2021 @03:36PM (#27573215)
It all comes down to how the company is run. We sell our product vs hosting some SaaS, so outages aren't a big deal. We also are not a young company who "moves fast and breaks things", so showstopping bugs are pretty rare.
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