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I've recently negotiated a 4-day work week with my employer. It's been a huge quality of life improvement. Whether I make $80k/yr or $150k/yr, it doesn't matt
by SpaceL10n 5y ago
I've recently negotiated a 4-day work week with my employer. It's been a huge quality of life improvement. Whether I make $80k/yr or $150k/yr, it doesn't matter as much to me as quality of life. Maybe I'm an outlier, but money isn't everything.
If smaller companies can't compete on the huge salaries and options that larger companies provide, they can certainly compete on flexible work schedules. A developer working 4 days a week is pretty much just as useful to me as the engineering manager as a developer who is working 5 days a week. Budget and schedule.
- Ericson2314 5y agoif everyone does it, labor will become more scarse, and wages should go back up too to recover the some or all of missing 1/5, so please everyone do this!
- marcosdumay 5y agoOnly if total production goes down. If productivity increases enough to compensate (what really looks like the case), it should have no impact on wages.
- 908B64B197 5y ago> If smaller companies can't compete on the huge salaries and options that larger companies provide, they can certainly compete on flexible work schedules. They certainly can compete. Just raise more or adopt a stock comp model.
- bobthepanda 5y agoNot all companies looking to hire devs have massive injections of VC money to play with. Tech at this point is needed to some degree in lots of products.
- 908B64B197 5y agoMaybe they need better founders.