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> Companies OK with working 35 hour weeks? It seems reasonable to me to target 35 considering it seems reasonable to you to expect overtime.
by user5994461 10y ago
> Companies OK with working 35 hour weeks?
It seems reasonable to me to target 35 considering it seems reasonable to you to expect overtime.
- dceddia 10y agoIt's interesting that there aren't more companies doing 30-35hr weeks. With the amount of sentiment like this on HN alone, I'm surprised there aren't engineers going out and starting shorter-work-week companies. I know of Treehouse which has a 4-day workweek[0], but I can't think of any others. I can think of a few reasons why companies wouldn't do this ("leaving money on the table", force of habit, investors, scheduling with partner companies, ...) but it's still surprising there aren't more founders taking a Basecamp-like "think different" approach towards working hours. [0] http://www.businessinsider.com/treehouse-ceos-32-hour-workweek-2015-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/treehouse-ceos-32-hour-workwe...
- user5994461 10y agoWell, I do 35. Took me 3 tries to find a job like that :D You're on HN, the startup community. The premise of startups is that young engineers give their life to create products in exchange for free food and a bit of experience, while the executives and the VC will take all the returns, if any. It's really not family friendly.