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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)

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Post by Tegran »

kaiuhl wrote: post #21
andrewfong wrote: post #19

Anyone have thoughts on how 4-day work week compares to a 5-day-but-shorter-days work week (discussed a bit yesterday at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6912645 )?

I've worked 40 hour weeks in a corporate environment (where it's often actually less than 40), 60 hour weeks in an agency, 32 hour weeks at Treehouse. I find that needing to physically commit to work five days a week is the crux—it makes very little difference how much time you're spending in the pursuit of it. I'm big into backpacking, so three full, available days makes a world of difference to me, not the amount o…

Being able to get into the car on a Thursday evening, knowing you don't have to be back until Monday morning, every week of the year sounds good to me. :)

Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)

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Post by ryancarson »

dworin wrote: post #84
RyanZAG wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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…

This

Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)

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Post by ryancarson »

lquist wrote: post #99
ryancarson wrote: post #26

60+ employees now and we're still doing the 4-day (32 hour) week. Probably saw this, but we have also since removed managers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6886907

Do you mind sharing your current revenue run rate (roughly)?

$8m+

Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)

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Post by ryancarson »

cocoflunchy wrote: post #102

@ryancarson you should consider resizing that profile photo in the right-hand column, it is 1.8MB and 3280px wide... ( http://static.tumblr.com/8759c003e3a97c8762c00ba9e1d5a164/m4... ) Thanks from those of us who are stuck with Time Warner Cable ;)

Thanks, will do!

Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)

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Post by ryancarson »

neil_s wrote: post #109

Ryan, why did Treehouse choose fewer days over fewer hours per day as a way to reduce total hours worked? Anecdotal data says most information workers find it hard to actually get more than 6 hours of work a day, so that would suggest a 9-6 day not being optimal. Just wondering what made you choose one approach over another.

We all have breaks throughout the day

Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)

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Post by ryancarson »

carbocation wrote: post #73

I actually subscribed to TeamTreehouse because I wanted someone to hold my hand to introduce me to iOS. It was a good experience. For background, I've been programming for 20 years, first in Basic, then PHP, Javascript, R, (a very small amount of) Common Lisp, and Go. Given that I currently have little free time, it's quite nice to have someone show you a Good Way to write idiomatic code in a new language. I found th…

Thank you!

Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)

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Post by ojbyrne »

ritchiea wrote: post #14

My experience working 80 hour weeks wasn't with startups, it was with political campaigns where I made far less money and there was obviously no equity. Similar situation though, get idealistic 20-somethings recently out of college without families to work endlessly. I don't support 7 day weeks and 12 hour days, but frankly for politics it works. Why? Because for 95% of campaign employees it's not work quality that m…

So after reading this, and relaxing (leisure spurs interesting thoughts), I had this insight - many, many political campaigns are decided when a candidate/staffer/media person makes a stupid gaffe. The last presidential campaign basically was decided by Mitt Romney's 47% remark (http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/07/mitt-romney-47-perce...).

These things have got to be made more common by mass sleep deprivation. Maybe, maybe, the next president will be the one who insists his staffers work a strict 40 hours a week.

Re: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012)

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Post by ra3 »

ryancarson wrote: post #41
nilsimsa wrote: post #13

Looks 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...

Working for me

oh.. that means its working for everyone, right?
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