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We encourage developers to work 20 hours a week. Our experience is any engineer worth their salt is as productive in 20 hours as they were in 40 --- if anything
by wkirby 11y ago
We encourage developers to work 20 hours a week. Our experience is any engineer worth their salt is as productive in 20 hours as they were in 40 --- if anything, they're more productive. We also have an unlimited vacation policy, but we enforce a minimum of two weeks a year, which has really helped ensure people actually use their vacation time.
- _pmf_ 11y ago> if anything, they're more productive I cannot count the times that I've spent the whole Friday on some problem just to have the solution occur to me out of nowhere at some moment during the weekend.
- wkirby 11y agoThe most productive engineering I ever do is while I'm washing the dishes.
- slig 11y agoCan you tell us what is your company?
- wkirby 11y agoApsis Labs, http://apsis.io http://apsis.io
- eplanit 11y agoWhat and where is this land you speak of?
- wkirby 11y agoThe internet. We're at http://apsis.io http://apsis.io
- jedberg 11y agoHow do you enforce the minimum, and also how do you make sure people don't mistake the minimum for the expectation?
- wkirby 11y agoA lot of yelling. We find people respond well when you yell at them to stop working and take time off.
- rokhayakebe 11y agoI can second this for personal projects. When I had two hours per day to work on personal projects I accomplished more than when I moved to work part time and thought an extra 3 hours would be beneficial. They were the opposite.
- ameen 11y agoCould you please update your HN profile. Usually a member checks it to get in touch. Interesting policy and I do agree that qualified engineers should be able to deliver within a reasonable time frame. That said, the time spent on the problem isn't the best measure to gauge productivity. Each person approaches problems differently and usually well knit teams solve problems faster than geniuses in isolation.
- wkirby 11y agoCertainly, and we don't encourage isolation from our engineers. They are free to work further on problems, and often do --- but when the expectation is to work your fill, rather than to work the problem to death, we find our employees excel. Taking the weekend to ignore a problem often leads to a solution on Monday morning.
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- znebby 11y agoYour website says that your minimum vacation is three weeks[1]. Have you since changed your policy :P ? [1] http://apsis.io/blog/2015/04/23/work-sustainably http://apsis.io/blog/2015/04/23/work-sustainably
- wkirby 11y agoNo. I'm dumb.