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I recently started working a 4-day work week and gained some great feedback here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9505868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item
by stevesearer 11y ago
I recently started working a 4-day work week and gained some great feedback here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9505868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9505868
Rather than use the 5th day as a casual, side project workday as it seems the author of this post has done, I decided to take the day totally off. So far it has worked fairly well, though I have had to check in a few times (as I am currently doing).
The most important factors of my decision to experiment with the new schedule was that I have a 4-month old and want to spend time with her and my wife. I was also pretty confident that I didn't actually have enough work to fill 40 hours and was spending a good amount of time reading news or whatever else from the office when I could be hanging out with my family or enjoying the outdoors.
- Tx3 11y agoThank you for sharing your experience! Taking the day totally off especially when you have a special time period going on sounds like wise move. I think in the future all this will be more popular as there will more and more people and less work due to the automation. One solutions is to decrease amount of work single person is doing and giving the rest for someone else. Now I'm going to read the feedback section of your question.