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I’ve found working as a contractor helps a lot with this sort of thing. You’re already billing an hourly rate and sending invoices. There are no benefits, sick
by jasonkester 4y ago
I’ve found working as a contractor helps a lot with this sort of thing. You’re already billing an hourly rate and sending invoices. There are no benefits, sick leave or vacation time that need to be pro rated. And somewhere in the agreement there is probably a clause stating that you’ll schedule your own time (so that you don’t accidentally get classified as an employee).
In short, there are less complications to act as barrier to being able to drop your hours, and the company has fewer options to push back if they don’t like the idea.
Definitely do it, by the way. I’ve been doing 2-3 day weeks for a couple years now and it’s fantastic. I can pick and choose which days to clock in based on things like whether it’s sunny out or whether my brain is working well enough to charge for, or whether I just feel like doing something else that day.
So long as the work gets done, there’s no reason to be at the desk 5 days in a row.
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- herbst 4y agoMy income is mostly passive, about 2-3 hours per week is actual work but not time critical, I can also do 4 hours the next week. I only work when my brain feels ready for it. And honestly sometimes that is not very often. However i still regularly get done more in 2 days as in an 40 hour job. If I have an idea I want to focus on I do that. I may code away for 2 weeks without many breaks until I trash the project or stash it away. Sometimes productive, sometimes just wasting time and learning things. I could not imagine a better working model (for myself). And I really hope more people get the enjoy the freedom of more time in future, there won't be enough jobs anyway once we are done automating everything.
- yieldcrv 4y agosalaried people are also doing 2-3 days of work each week, but are getting paid as if doing 5
- PenguinCoder 4y agoYeah but don't tell that to management. If they end up reducing the work hours they'll reduce the pay too. Because "you're working less". But not really; I'm working probably the same amount, but now I don't have to pretend to be working for 40 hours.
- jxidjhdhdhdhfhf 4y agoThe downside is you are still chained to your desk / Slack whether you are actually getting any work done. Sounds like OP doesn't have to pretend to be working.