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We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
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Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#122I'd be interested to compare the benefits of a 4 day week with those of a 5 day, reduced hour week. I'm inclined to believe that the reduced hour week would give you more productive days while still making lots of time to sleep in or spend the afternoon with family.
Has anyone worked in this kind of alternative environment?
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Usually a revenue run rate means "we extrapolated our previous short term over the next year." It's useful for rapidly-growing companies where your next three quarters are much more likely to look like your current one than the previous three. So that would mean they're still being very economical with per-employee expenses. My guess is that a lot of those employees aren't developers, they're in other roles where the…
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Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#124Looks like their website would need more work. The following link didn't work for me a few times... https://teamtreehouse.com/subscribe/plans May want to make it a 5-day week a little longer...
It also works for me
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#125Congratulations, I'm a big fan of Treehouse and I think that the world needs more companies and leaders with a culture similar with yours.
For example I'm tired of seeing the Marissas Mayer's of the world praising that they go back to work just two weeks after giving birth. What kind of mother is this?
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#126Awesome work guys!
I'm curious how you guys decided on a 4-day week? Was it a group decision or founder laying down the new way of getting stuff done?
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
You poor soul. That is not the standard. I work strictly 7.5 hours a day for 5 days. Anything else = pay me more for my time. If you are working your schedule (10 hours a day, what the actual fuck), you are being taken advantage of.
>10 hours a day, what the actual fuck I'm confused at your balking. Perhaps because I work in finance and shit hours are the norm, but 10 hours a day is not ridiculous. I work that almost everyday unless it's a busy week.
I used to slightly better hours in Hong Kong, but now I hear it has got worse (i.e., other have echoed the 10 hours per day number that you mentioned). I was offered an Executive Director role at a big bank and could not get myself to say 'yes' because we all know what that means : blackberry operator 24 x 7. :-(
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#128Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
...except he stated in the article that they work 8 hours a day...
How is 9-6 8 hours a day? They work 9 hours a day. As stated in the article.
9-6 could include a lunch hour.
A sibling post to yours says "Treehouse developer here. It's actually four 8s." so that is likely the case.
Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is 9-6 8 hours a day? They work 9 hours a day. As stated in the article.
9-6 could include a lunch hour. A sibling post to yours says "Treehouse developer here. It's actually four 8s." so that is likely the case.
Working from 9-5 includes lunch as well. The fact that 9-6 includes lunch, the fact that it needs to be mentioned, is ridiculous, you still spend 9 hours in or around the office.