Damn, I can barely click around the web without seeing a picture of that guy's skinny mug plastered on something. I'm beginning to think the business is marketing, not technology.
At least the hat is gone.
We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
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#52Please add 2011 to title. Folks are thinking this is new.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Political campaigns at least have downtime though, right? You can have a month or two off between sprints. I think certain creative work (movies?) is like this too.
With some exceptions, especially at the top, the "downtime between campaigns" is called unemployment.
True. I was thinking of it in terms of "Overall the hours may be close to 2000/year" but the reality is the pay sucks, so having downtime is different than other fields. (Say a month or two off between high intensity programming gigs)
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#54Very few companies will consider 4-days, but I wish they would consider 5-days at 7 hours.
Just do it, man. I work 10-5. If someone complains, stop.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Majority of tech companies require 7-day work week I've been working as a professional programmer for the last 12 years, in 4 companies as an employee and a couple others as a consultant/freelancer. In none have I seen 7 day work weeks as a standard, nor have I heard of such from any of my many friends who also work as programmers. Am I an outlier? PS I agree that tech companies (among others) often have a culture of…
I put answer in my comment. Here is the answer: This 7-work week is actually based on calculation: 5 days * 10 hours per day + 5 hours on weekends (to check email). All companies I worked required 10 hours per day. 9 to 5 is not looked nice unless you don't login in the evening and "do some emails". Which tech company has 9 to 5?
>>Which tech company has 9 to 5?
Plenty do. In fact, outside of the startup world, 9 to 5 is probably much more common in tech than in other industries.
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#56Does this include support staff? Does it not affect the quality of customer service having your business go dark for three days each week?
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#58Congratulations! That is a great milestone to celebrate. I was wondering about your numbers though, your post says : > $3,000,000+ yearly revenue run rate (and growing fast) > > Grown the Team to 34 full-time people and hiring > at least 10 more as soon as possible Profitable with $3M run rate and 34 people? That is $88K fully loaded per person. Can you share some techniques for keeping your burn rate so economical?…
It's probably a result of rapid expansion. eg, they did $3M revenue over the last financial year, but only started that year with 20 or whatever employees. So you should probably be dividing by something like an average of 26 employees and not 34, which gives $115K per person and seems more in line with reality.
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#59Congratulations on Treehouse's success! I totally believe in the 4-day work ethic.
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#60I've been working 4 days/week for the past 3 years, which does mean I make 20% less than I could be making, but at this point there's very little that could convince me to ever go back to 5 days/week. It's good to see little pockets where the idea is growing, because it's been tremendously positive for me.