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I do think the biggest obstacle to part time work in the US is that health care is tied to employment. Health insurance can easily cost $20k+ a year for a famil
by colinmhayes 5y ago
I do think the biggest obstacle to part time work in the US is that health care is tied to employment. Health insurance can easily cost $20k+ a year for a family, and it'll be hard for employees to stomach the salary cut they might have to take to make the numbers work.
- Jtsummers 5y agoYou can still get health insurance while working part-time, it's just not required by law. Put it into your contract, someone going for a role like this poster seems interested in would be able to negotiate that into their contract if it wasn't there from the start.
- leetcrew 5y agomaybe, maybe not. it's pretty common to find households where one partner has a job with a good salary and the other has a job with good benefits. cutting salary by more than proration while offering great benefits could be an attractive combo for households with this strategy.
- dv_dt 5y agoIf one is actually serious in bringing senior engineers in house under part time work hours, why would one make assumptions to limit the scope of who would find it acceptable conditions to come in under? In the US one could offer comp for health insurance equivalent partial value, or go the other way and carry full health insurance with the part time salary reducing. Or maybe this whole situation favors a setup in nations w/ universal healthcare.