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Re:Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay? by brazzy on Friday September 06, 2024 @03:41AM (#41463891)
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.

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Re:Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay? by YZF on Saturday September 07, 2024 @01:54AM (#41471756)
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.
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