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We are treated like adults. We work from home 4 days a week, we are more than free to go run errands or something if we need to, we have the freedom to spend s

We are treated like adults. We work from home 4 days a week, we are more than free to go run errands or something if we need to, we have the freedom to spend some time on learning or on a "side project" which could help the company, some people have even gone over on vacation time with no issues, some people start at 7AM and cut out early, others start at 10 or 11 and leave later. As long as your shit gets done and you are available for most meetings or calls you have a lot of freedom, and in turn I'm personally more willing to put in the extra time if a project is falling behind, or a product breaks at 7PM and the guy on call could use help. And for a while it was a big reason for me staying. Yeah, another job offered me more money, but when I needed to go take the car into the shop would I need to take a day off? Will I be able to leave early on Thursdays? Will I be punished for spending 3 hours learning a new tool when I got stuck on my main project and needed to just switch gears for a bit?

Davertron 10y ago
Is your company hiring front-end devs? ;) It might be useful to put the company name out there, I'd be interested in learning more.
zeal-technology 10y ago
I think that this is great and you are valuing trust between you and the company. We are all adults and it is first and foremost your life and time that you have decided to spend with the company. Expectation that it is the company's time is an aggressive way to think about a salary based employment. I am befuddled by some companies that do not understand that respect and trust goes a long way towards employees life, health, and productivity too!
wiredfool 10y ago
I've left money on the table for flexibility. I've been WFH for a long time now, and I'm far more effective than in the office. They don't mind errands, and I don't mind working the occasional evening when out of time zone calls come up. Some weeks it's most evenings till 11, but I can balance that with working out in the mornings.
st3v3r 10y ago
Did you ask the other job about those things?
drcongo 10y ago
This is exactly how we run my company, I even had to click your username to see if you work for us.

Davertron 10y ago

Is your company hiring front-end devs? ;) It might be useful to put the company name out there, I'd be interested in learning more.

zeal-technology 10y ago

I think that this is great and you are valuing trust between you and the company. We are all adults and it is first and foremost your life and time that you have decided to spend with the company. Expectation that it is the company's time is an aggressive way to think about a salary based employment. I am befuddled by some companies that do not understand that respect and trust goes a long way towards employees life, health, and productivity too!

wiredfool 10y ago

I've left money on the table for flexibility. I've been WFH for a long time now, and I'm far more effective than in the office. They don't mind errands, and I don't mind working the occasional evening when out of time zone calls come up. Some weeks it's most evenings till 11, but I can balance that with working out in the mornings.

st3v3r 10y ago

Did you ask the other job about those things?

drcongo 10y ago

This is exactly how we run my company, I even had to click your username to see if you work for us.