Re:Ask HN: Are companies open to a 4-day work week?
by dagw on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @09:23AM
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Several people at my workplace have gone down to a 90% work week, taking every other Friday off. The 10% pay cut is small enough to not really notice, but the positive effect of the extra day off every other week is huge. Once my current backlog of work has been cleared I'm considering trying it myself.
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Re:Ask HN: Are companies open to a 4-day work week?
by sjs382 on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @09:39AM
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We do that at the company where I work, for creatives and developers (but not project/client admins, who need to be to clients during regular business hours).
We call it a 9/80 schedule (9 days, 80 hours), and it doesn't require a pay cut, or a reduction in the number of hours worked.
We work 9 hour days, 4 days per week and then we alternate between having the remaining day off and 8 hour work days. We also stagger the our days off, so that any department is never down a significant number of people.
It works really well. We arrive 1 hour before anyone else, so that hour of uninterrupted work is very valuable. There is some pushback from a particularly unorganized Account Leader, but I think everyone understands why that pushback exists.