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

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Post by em-bee »

drooby wrote: post #103

Absolutely. Lately I’ve been thinking about what it would be to work every other week. Half of the year, getting full weeks of just living life. Amazing. The plus side for the employer is that you get a full week of my attention on a very reliable schedule. This would be the pinnacle of work life balance for me.

i have been working like this. we didn't plan it that way but effectively we let things accumulate until there was enough for a few days of work and then we picked a week where the client or me wasn't busy with other things and we sat down and worked through those issues.

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Post by 4b11b4 »

jrs235 wrote: post #79
wiskinator wrote: post #52

YES YES YES. I'm so freaking burned out. I need some time to get my life back to a comfortable pace, and I constantly consider fully quitting my job, but that seems too drastic. More importantly, I don't want to 100% stop working because I actually do love working. I just can't figure out how to care for my family, my mental and physical health, and put in 40+ hours at my job. (Seniority wise, I've got 18 years of ex…

I'm with you! I'm already on a "reduced 30 hr/week expectation" but just submitted notice of needing leave, drastically dropping to reduced part-time hours, or parting ways. I'd love to hear and learn more about you. You might be a fit for my current employer. Shoot me an email found in my profile if you're interested.

I also gave notice of the same thing on Monday this week. My boss was OK with working three 10 hour days which I will likely oblige at first, but I'm looking to go down to the 20 hour mark in the end.

I'm lucky to be in a flexible enough environment and proven myself as an IC who manages themselves, projects and clients reliably.

To the point of the OP: you can't take care of things in your life while working like that. I also think of quitting entirely, simply to take care of myself and others around me. Nobody can or is doing it, and nobody will be able to unless one of us gets out first and can set some kind of force in motion that builds up everyone around us.

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Post by tyre »

em-bee wrote: post #119
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'm not sure why more companies don't simply reduce hours in lieu of paying out higher salaries. Tried it. It only really works if the developer’s tasks are very independent of the rest of the team. Basically, if the employee already functions in the same way as an independent contractor or consultant working on an isolated project, shrinking their work hours isn’t a big deal. But when you have someone working as p…

i can see that if you work less days, but not if you work every day but less hours. at most you should wait a few hours for that person to be available. that's not unreasonable.

I work on the east coast as part of a team that is mostly on the west coast. I can fit my meetings into the latter five hours. It sucks because it tends to have little space (I’m an EM) but it works.

It works for my team as well, so it’s definitely doable.

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Post by philmcp »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #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.

Thanks for the shoutout :)

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

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Post by toomuchtodo »

philmcp wrote: post #125
toomuchtodo wrote: post #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.

Thanks for the shoutout :)

Every darn time I can I’m going to lean on resources that helps normalize and champion a 4 day work week. As such, always happy to share your project when the context permits.
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