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I agree. First, this is a team made up of part-time workers, not full-time workers, which is not what I was expecting by reading the title. So working 30 hours
by yeukhon 10y ago
I agree. First, this is a team made up of part-time workers, not full-time workers, which is not what I was expecting by reading the title. So working 30 hours a week is really really not that special, consider they are PART TIME.
Regardless, there are weeks people will have to pull extra hours to complete work, such as during product launch week.
If this were a program made up of full-time employees, I would be interested to see the number of overtime hours this team will accumulate. Otherwise, I don't see what's so interesting about this experiment.
BTW, I work extra hours because sometimes I just want to work extra hours. Sometimes, I just want to pull extra hours to get the most boring stuff out of the way.
Instead of a 30-hour pilot, make Friday a half-day for everyone.
- citizenflynn 10y agoIt is special in that you have proportional salary and full benefits. Many part time jobs have substantially reduced pay and benefits, unlike this.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoPerhaps that's the appropriate pay and 40+ hour/week workers should be making more?
- pm215 10y agoIt's special in that currently getting non-full-time work as a software engineer is pretty tricky (you can often arrange to drop down to part time at your existing company, but getting a job at a new company on non-full-time hours is much harder). So if it catches on and the opportunities for part-time workers become more numerous that's great for people (including me) who don't or can't work full time.
- BookingPotions 10y agoI agree about the hour spread. It should be something like a max hour per week, but that you can partition as you see fit.