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The practical interest for you, as the employer, is the quality of your team and of the work produced -- something you should be optimizing for regardless. Say
by Smudge 12y ago
The practical interest for you, as the employer, is the quality of your team and of the work produced -- something you should be optimizing for regardless.
Say you find a dev who nails all of your interviews, is passionate about the kind of work your team does, and intuitively gets your company's mission. And then you find out he or she is only available for 16-20 hours a week. You must decide whether hiring them for their time is still a net gain for your business.
In some cases, it may not be, and as you said it certainly makes sense to have more full-timers available to do the day-to-day dirty work. But I'd argue that, in many cases, the quality of output and, yes, even the timeframe in which it gets done, will be higher for some developers given 16-hour weeks than many developers will do in a 40- or 50-hour week.
- randallsquared 12y ago> Say you find a dev who [...] is passionate about the kind of work your team does What does this mean to you? To me, being passionate about doing something means I want to do more of it, quite literally. Leaving other motivations aside, someone who is trying to negotiate less time is less passionate, right?
- rpeden 12y agoOr it means they recognize that passion is a finite resource that takes time to replenish. Works too hard for too long at something you are passionate about is a good way to lose the passion for it you once felt. So someone who is trying to negotiate less time doesn't necessarily mean they are less passionate about their work; it may just mean that they are mature and self aware enough to realize that they'd like to work at a pace that allows them to sustain that passion over the long term.