Ask HN: Companies hiring for a 4-day workweek?

Re:Ask HN: Companies hiring for a 4-day workweek? by osener on Monday May 02, 2022 @03:44AM (#31232382)

It is the norm to work fewer hours in many sectors, especially if you're a government worker, but in tech it hasn't been my experience (as an expat in NL). If you don't have kids it seems to be 40+ hrs or nothing and requesting anything below full time is "unfair to other colleagues" or "signals a lack of commitment".

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Re:Ask HN: Companies hiring for a 4-day workweek? by BozeWolf on Monday May 02, 2022 @04:50AM (#31232708)

Not sure where you work then. As a (dutch) freelancer I worked at at least 10 companies where without exception 32hrs was possible. Developer jobs though.

But at my internship long time ago, as a mechanical engineer, it was also possible.

None of them offer fully remote jobs though.

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Re:Ask HN: Companies hiring for a 4-day workweek? by trevormcneal on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:42AM (#31233447)

I recently tried and got exactly this, wouldn't be fair for the others to have to work more to compensate for me, and they wanted some committed to working. I will keep trying, maybe is the moment to shame these companies back to see if they change their behaviour.

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Re:Ask HN: Companies hiring for a 4-day workweek? by dtech on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:30AM (#31233358)

Not my experience in NL, having worked 4x9 at 3 companies for the past years, only some minor pushback easily set aside.

Might be different at Booking or fintech companies.

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