There are two dilemmas with part-time programming. 1) I suspect that most employers prefer to attempt to extract all possible programming productivity from thei

There are two dilemmas with part-time programming. 1) I suspect that most employers prefer to attempt to extract all possible programming productivity from their employees, and ask/expect them to work more than full-time (SV startup bias,) so a part-time employee is really like a quarter or a third -- in management's eyes -- of a "fully dedicated" employee, and may not be worth 2) the worse overhead/productivity ratio of part-time programming. Unfortunately, many organizations have high process overhead for the task of programming. This may be comprised of meetings, email and so on. A part-timer still has to be "kept in the loop", and the effort to do so does not scale back linearly with the scaling back of time worked. Have you minimized your expenses?