Re:Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?
by yunohn on Friday September 06, 2024 @04:23AM
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If anything, most tech company contracts are written the other way around - there is almost never overtime pay and any thinking/work done both within and outside work hours is completely owned by the company.
Re:Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?
by brazzy on Friday September 06, 2024 @03:41AM
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Developers in the USA earn far beyond the level where the lifestyle creep that you describe is so compelling that it makes any sense at all to say "you can't work 50% of the time for half the salary".
A more solid factor is that companies don't want to hire part-time developers, because coordination overhead means twice the number of developers each working half as many hours are far less effective.
Re:Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?
by YZF on Saturday September 07, 2024 @01:54AM
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I meant it in that sense. Even if I wanted to I wouldn't be able to work 50% for half my salary (likely) because my employer would have a problem with that. For the reason you gave and others.
Re:Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?
by BurningFrog on Friday September 06, 2024 @01:00PM
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I have asked to work 4 day weeks at 80% of my salary a few times, and not had a problem. When I once asked for a 3 day week that was turned down.
The other way to work 50% is to take a few months or years break between jobs.
I've enjoyed doing that. It's certainly not for everyone.
Maybe you have kids and you want to be able to pay for their education, or buy them a place to live... Maybe you're helping your family.
Personally I could have "retired" a long while back if I wanted to have a lower standard of living and also take some risk. But I don't hate my work, I do things out of work as well, I prefer a nicer house and a nicer car, I'd probably be bored if I didn't work.