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

Post by ido » Tue, Dec 17, 2013, 6:47 PM UTC

tlogan wrote: post #20

Congratulation! This is how it should be done. And I have a question.... All professors of management and organizations understand that work week should be defined differently for knowledge workers. And that most the important quality of knowledge workers is initiative. So if you have 80 hours work week and all innovation or initiative is dismissed, that can mean two things: 1) you are not "knowledge worker" but just…

    Majority of tech companies require 7-day work week

Post by ryancarson » Tue, Dec 17, 2013, 6:49 PM UTC

syntheticlife wrote: post #8

Blog about it when you work a 4-day week and _earn_ $4.75m/yr.

Post by Segmentation » Tue, Dec 17, 2013, 6:49 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 17, 2013, 6:51 PM UTC

Post by tlogan » Tue, Dec 17, 2013, 6:52 PM UTC

ido wrote: post #32

tlogan wrote: post #20

Congratulation! This is how it should be done. And I have a question.... All professors of management and organizations understand that work week should be defined differently for knowledge workers. And that most the important quality of knowledge workers is initiative. So if you have 80 hours work week and all innovation or initiative is dismissed, that can mean two things: 1) you are not "knowledge worker" but just…

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…