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Absolutely.

Having a gap is irrelevant if you can demonstrate skills.

Subtraction is not necessary for division.

This is a specific example, and the general point is that there a multiple ways of doing things. If a child can avoid 1 step and skip straight to the result more efficiently, that is a valid way of solving a problem.

By “20% time” do you mean the recommendation to spend 20% of your time learning?

I think all of those requests are reasonable.

Allowing someone to work the hours that they work most efficiently in increases productivity.

Everyone knows that meetings are a waste of time and lead to poorly thought out solutions.

Asynchronous communication is more efficient AND gives better results.

Both of these things are objectively good for the company, and a company which sees that will outperform a company that doesn’t.

Nobody wants to work 5 days a week. Most people just put up with it. The company doesn’t really have a way to measure productivity so they just say more hours worked = more hours produced. But we all know this relationship is not linear.

I know anecdotally that my productivity is vastly higher when working fewer hours.

I have had times where I get more work done in 4 days than I did in 5 days. That isn’t always going to be the case. But if the company is paying you 80% salary then the company is definitely getting more work out of you per unit salary, and that’s all that really matters in the end.