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You can't argue with 37signals being able to produce a lot of results with their 4 day work week. . . BUT does anyone else see the irony of them always posting

You can't argue with 37signals being able to produce a lot of results with their 4 day work week. . . BUT does anyone else see the irony of them always posting blog posts responding to Hacker News stories? I thought with the 4 day work week everyone spent less time distracted and more time doing? I think working from home/allowing any hours as long as results are produced is great for some jobs like hacking and design - but it utterly fails for other jobs. If you need to communicate with other businesses, you have to be there everyday during business hours. What happens if a big customer calls on friday and everyone is gone, 40 hours doesn't help much if it isn't on those days.

swombat 18y ago
Hmm, actually the 37Signals story appeared earlier than I posted this :-) So they're not really responding to HNews...
mechanical_fish 18y ago
I thought with the 4 day work week everyone spent less time distracted and more time doing? Do you really think that the 37signals strategy of fostering a dialogue with HN readers is a distraction from their business plan? Given that the customer base for products like Basecamp consists of small businesspeople with a slight technical bent? 37signals, like Spolsky and the ArsDigita of yore and (ahem) YCombinator, fosters discussions about hacking because such discussions are a very effective marketing tool. Which is not to say that the company doesn't also do it because it's fun, and because it's good for their profession and for the world. It's one of those win-win-win situations.