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Ask HN: Getting a 4 day workweek?
5 points by 4dayweek on Aug 24, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
I've been on a job search with the goal of negotiating for a 4 day work week. I went through a platform and ended up getting 4 offers, but none of them went for my counteroffer of 4 days a week with less salary.

What does it take to find a company willing to do this? I'm a very competent engineer (got promoted to team lead at my current gig), and to me it seems like an opportunity for companies to get a good engineer on the cheap. Obviously they don't see it that way.

Where should I look for companies that might be willing to do 4 days?

PS. If any commenters are hiring, leave your email and I'll send you my resume.



This is interesting to me because I see a lot of need for better work/life balance and people trying many different ways to achieve that. But I think personally the reason you'd have a hard time finding a company willing to take that compromise (lower salary, fewer days per week) is because it's just you which makes you kind of stand out a bit compared to everyone else there. It also opens a can of worms for the employer who will have to make case-by-case decisions about every other person in the company who sees you getting 4 days and 4/5 the pay, and suddenly all run to ask HR for a similar deal. It's just going to be a big logistics headache for them.


My career was mostly a 4 day 32 hour a week job with the US government. For them it was a way to spread limited resources across many different efforts. You might look for a 32 hour apportionment with the feds. Perhaps there is some way to take advantage of limited resources in a private enterprise. I don't know how you'd go about it though.




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