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It is the norm to work fewer hours in many sectors, especially if you're a government worker, but in tech it hasn't been my experience (as an expat in NL). If y
by osener 4y ago
It is the norm to work fewer hours in many sectors, especially if you're a government worker, but in tech it hasn't been my experience (as an expat in NL). If you don't have kids it seems to be 40+ hrs or nothing and requesting anything below full time is "unfair to other colleagues" or "signals a lack of commitment".
- BozeWolf 4y agoNot sure where you work then. As a (dutch) freelancer I worked at at least 10 companies where without exception 32hrs was possible. Developer jobs though. But at my internship long time ago, as a mechanical engineer, it was also possible. None of them offer fully remote jobs though.
- dtech 4y agoNot my experience in NL, having worked 4x9 at 3 companies for the past years, only some minor pushback easily set aside. Might be different at Booking or fintech companies.
- trevormcneal 4y agoI recently tried and got exactly this, wouldn't be fair for the others to have to work more to compensate for me, and they wanted some committed to working. I will keep trying, maybe is the moment to shame these companies back to see if they change their behaviour.