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We encourage developers to work 20 hours a week. Our experience is any engineer worth their salt is as productive in 20 hours as they were in 40 --- if anything, they're more productive. We also have an unlimited vacation policy, but we enforce a minimum of two weeks a year, which has really helped ensure people actually use their vacation time.
In large part I attribute this to my environment which, now that I'm working from home, is almost completely free of distractions. I get started at about 8 AM and wrap things up by 2 or 3 on most days - which is right when my kids get home. I clock out for anything more than a bathroom break which means my clients are getting a far more potent work-hour out of me then they get from their employees.
The reality is that the 40 work day is an anachronism; and it can't die soon enough. Start evaluating your employees by whether they're actually giving you the value you're paying them for and not by how much time they clock in your building working, looking at Facebook, or goofing off in the breakroom.
We encourage developers to work 20 hours a week. Our experience is any engineer worth their salt is as productive in 20 hours as they were in 40 --- if anything, they're more productive. We also have an unlimited vacation policy, but we enforce a minimum of two weeks a year, which has really helped ensure people actually use their vacation time.
Your website says that your minimum vacation is three weeks[1]. Have you since changed your policy :P ? [1] http://apsis.io/blog/2015/04/23/work-sustainably
We encourage developers to work 20 hours a week. Our experience is any engineer worth their salt is as productive in 20 hours as they were in 40 --- if anything, they're more productive. We also have an unlimited vacation policy, but we enforce a minimum of two weeks a year, which has really helped ensure people actually use their vacation time.
What and where is this land you speak of?
We encourage developers to work 20 hours a week. Our experience is any engineer worth their salt is as productive in 20 hours as they were in 40 --- if anything, they're more productive. We also have an unlimited vacation policy, but we enforce a minimum of two weeks a year, which has really helped ensure people actually use their vacation time.
Can you tell us what is your company?
We encourage developers to work 20 hours a week. Our experience is any engineer worth their salt is as productive in 20 hours as they were in 40 --- if anything, they're more productive. We also have an unlimited vacation policy, but we enforce a minimum of two weeks a year, which has really helped ensure people actually use their vacation time.
How do you enforce the minimum, and also how do you make sure people don't mistake the minimum for the expectation?
We encourage developers to work 20 hours a week. Our experience is any engineer worth their salt is as productive in 20 hours as they were in 40 --- if anything, they're more productive. We also have an unlimited vacation policy, but we enforce a minimum of two weeks a year, which has really helped ensure people actually use their vacation time.
Could you please update your HN profile. Usually a member checks it to get in touch. Interesting policy and I do agree that qualified engineers should be able to deliver within a reasonable time frame. That said, the time spent on the problem isn't the best measure to gauge productivity. Each person approaches problems differently and usually well knit teams solve problems faster than geniuses in isolation.
We encourage developers to work 20 hours a week. Our experience is any engineer worth their salt is as productive in 20 hours as they were in 40 --- if anything, they're more productive. We also have an unlimited vacation policy, but we enforce a minimum of two weeks a year, which has really helped ensure people actually use their vacation time.
> if anything, they're more productive I cannot count the times that I've spent the whole Friday on some problem just to have the solution occur to me out of nowhere at some moment during the weekend.