Indeed. This is another of the myriad reasons why developers should always negotiate employment as a 1099 contract. It takes this rationalization off the tabl

Indeed. This is another of the myriad reasons why developers should always negotiate employment as a 1099 contract. It takes this rationalization off the table. If they're paying for the hours you work and nothing else, it makes it a lot easier to quantify the value of "4 days of you" vs. "5 days of you each week". And of course, the laws that caused all that trouble for Microsoft in the 90s around the distinction between contractor and employee help a bit, since it now needs to be the contractor rather than the employee who decides when and how the actual work takes place.