If not please let me know and I can add you if you like
During the pandemic I launched https://4dayweek.io on HN as a side project - never would I have imagined 7M+ people would end up using it (!) So this week I launched v2 of the site after years of "wanting to" - arrival of our daughter and son delayed things slightly...The site has grown to 500+ companies who offer a 4 day work week (in a post AI world, it's inevitable imo)To grow more awareness...
So this week I launched v2 of the site after years of "wanting to" - arrival of our daughter and son delayed things slightly...
The site has grown to 500+ companies who offer a 4 day work week (in a post AI world, it's inevitable imo)
To grow more awareness to the movement, I want to expand the site to showcase more companies who offer a great work-life balance (beyond just the 4 day week)
So my question to you:
Does your current (or previous) employer offer a great work-life balance? if so, why?
Think: amazing vacation, suuuper flexible, half day Fridays etc
Would love to promote more companies who truly offer a great work life balance.
I stand by the rest however
More pros than cons
200k users a month, not huge but not nothing
Why do you think it's a bad schema?
CREATE TABLE x (id uuid DEFAULT uuid_generate_v4() PRIMARY KEY,data jsonb,inserted timestamp with time zone DEFAULT now(),updated timestamp with time zone);
This "deadline" is a forcing function for output.
But do you know what's a better deadline?
The 4 day work week.
It may seem silly - but artificially making the workweek shorter, makes us work faster.
It's Parkinson's Law in action.
If not, I'd love to add!
Over 300 companies now have some form of reduced working week :)
It amazes me when competent developers / analysts / data scientists don't know (any) SQL. Have they stopped teaching this in University or something?
Imagine what GPT6 is going to look like
The benefits for the employee are pretty obvious, but there are also many benefits for the company:
- Staff are more productive (for previous pilots: output almost always hits 100%)
- Job listings get (way) more applications
- Staff are happier
- Staff are healthier i.e. off sick less
- It's better for the environment
- Staff turnover reduces
- It attracts experienced candidates
- Costs reduce
- It's better for gender equality
Most of these companies on the site offer 100% salary, some offer 80% (but I hope to remove these in the future)
And I only know of 1 or 2 who switched back to 5 days
I think this speaks volumes in itself
https://4dayweek.io/remote-jobs/part-time (Disclaimer: I'm the founder)
https://www.blockchaindevs.net/ (Disclaimer: I'm the founder + I launched yesterday)
So typically the salaries are "market rate". Difficult to say for sure though as most companies still don't disclose this
As for the job you mentioned, I know which company this is and its for a part-time job (i.e. not a 4 day week for 100% salary)
Speaking honestly, I added the part time jobs are added to "bolster" content (given there are so few 4 day week jobs atm). I'd recommend focusing on the jobs marked as "4 day week", they are typically "higher quality"
Output hasn't changed
And if this ever becomes a company wide policy (e.g. 4 days for 100% or 80% salary), please let me know :)
I did this after working hard for ~1 year at the company. Once you prove your worth, it's in your employers interests to keep you i.e. it would cost them way more if you left for another job with shorter working hours so don't be afraid to ask
If it was doing it again though, I'd request this during my yearly review, and I'd ask for a 4 day week with no drop in salary
There are already companies offering a 32 hours work week though:
Disclaimer: I'm the founder