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Would senior engineers be interested in working reduced hours or part time?

#1
I work for a tech company and we're trying to see if there is interest from senior engineers who want to work part time. Now that we're a remote first company, we want to know if there are engineers who are at a point in their career where they no longer want to work full time, but are still interested in working reduced hours or part time. Specifically, we're not so much looking for contractors/freelancers to work on specific projects, but for an experienced senior engineer (previously worked for different start ups, or at a larger top tech company) to join a team and essentially be a guru or advisor to the team.

What are peoples thoughts on this idea? Is this type of thing something that you've seen at other companies, or would be of interest to see at a company?

Re: Would senior engineers be interested in working reduced hours or part time?

#6
The problem for me is that there seems to be a lot of overhead in getting to do productive work (ramping up, accumulating knowledge and experience to be productive in solving a problem). It might make more sense for part time to mean 6 months a year vs. 3 days a week, but that has its own drawback.

I'm not really sure how to reduce time in work without falling off a cliff given that problems at the senior level tend to require so much focus.

Re: Would senior engineers be interested in working reduced hours or part time?

#10
Have you tried listing reqs on https://4dayweek.io?

Speaking as an infosec practitioner, we’ve built functions with this model where we have infosec folks as subject matter experts (architecture, appsec, IAM) providing guidance on a 4 day work week. Great perk versus comp and benefits alone, and usually attractive to talent at later stages in life who are optimizing for QoL versus total comp.

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