I agree with you, you shouldn't be paid less. The problem is in larger companies rarely are you paid according to the value you create. Mostly likely as a devel

I agree with you, you shouldn't be paid less. The problem is in larger companies rarely are you paid according to the value you create. Mostly likely as a developer your "cost" is how much the hiring manager would need to pay for the next best equivalent worker. I'm questioning if we're paid according to how productive we are. The more steps there are between you and revenue the less likely this seems to be true. Because you aren't really paid based on hard results in large companies, the 8 hours becomes more about posturing than actually delivering the results. I'm open to other ideas. I desperately want to work 20 hours a week instead of 40. I'm trying to better understand why we're stuck at 40.