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Don't see this working in USA. I've never been to Europe, but work with many who are from there. You get socialized healthcare, cities with easy transit, and f
by me_me_mu_mu 5y ago
Don't see this working in USA.
I've never been to Europe, but work with many who are from there. You get socialized healthcare, cities with easy transit, and for the most part things are close.
In the US, we don't have health insurance unless we buy it ourselves ($$$$) or our company provides it ($). We don't have easy transit in most cities, and also people do live far away from the business centers.
That's why in the USA, most people want full time work. Unfortunately, the mega corporations that some of y'all work for ensure that this becomes harder and harder. Hope your RSUs are worth it!
- gopher_space 5y agoI think the US could convince non-retired people to cut back on the work week. For example, I think you could demonstrate that you need a workforce with fucked up backs alongside easy access to opioids to trigger our crisis.
- BadCookie 5y agoThe ACA made it possible to go part-time in the US. It costs just over $1k/month for my family of three for a silver plan with no subsidies.
- the-alchemist 5y agoIn addition, I heard in some states (CA, I think?), even a single member LLC has to be offered the same group rate for health insurance that other small-company (<100 employees) get. Maybe someone can confirm.
- berkes 5y agoI'm from the Netherlands, which is parttime king of the world. I haven't worked in a fulltime software development job for almost two decades now. Never has it been a problem. Never was my parttime requirement the reason to not hire me. I don't even consider fulltime an option. I'm very surprised at how people here react to this idea. Untill you pointed out it may be cultural thing. Another reason for me to not even consider working for a US tech company.
- city17 5y agoJust curious, how many hours have you been working mostly? 32 or even less? I'm also looking for a part-time dev role in the Netherlands and having some trouble finding anything under 32 hours. I could've signed several jobs already if I were willing to go full time.
- berkes 5y agoto be clear: I've been "working" 40+ hours. But tried to keep 16hours "for myself": Hours in which I work on personal projects, on private customers (freelance, consultancy etc) and open source. So I mostly had upwards of 24 and at most 32 hour employment contracts.
- zeepzeep 5y ago> That's why in the USA, most people want full time work. I don't think "want" is the correct term here. "are forced to get" fits better IMO.