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Which (tech) companies have the best work life balance?

3 points·by philmcp·3 tháng trước·0 comments

(accidental post)

4dayweek.io
3 points·by philmcp·3 tháng trước·1 comments

This is the only Postgres schema you need, change my mind

5 points·by philmcp·năm ngoái·14 comments

The climate benefits of a four-day workweek

bbc.com
36 points·by philmcp·3 năm trước·9 comments

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philmcp
·20 ngày trước·discuss
Are you already listed on https://4dayweek.io?

If not please let me know and I can add you if you like
philmcp
·3 tháng trước·discuss
During the pandemic I launched https://4dayweek.io on HN as a side project - never would I have imagined 7M+ people would end up using it (!)

So this week I launched v2 of the site after years of "wanting to" - arrival of our daughter and son delayed things slightly...

The site has grown to 500+ companies who offer a 4 day work week (in a post AI world, it's inevitable imo)

To grow more awareness to the movement, I want to expand the site to showcase more companies who offer a great work-life balance (beyond just the 4 day week)

So my question to you:

Does your current (or previous) employer offer a great work-life balance? if so, why?

Think: amazing vacation, suuuper flexible, half day Fridays etc

Would love to promote more companies who truly offer a great work life balance.
philmcp
·10 tháng trước·discuss
https://4dayweek.io/pros-and-cons
philmcp
·năm ngoái·discuss
Fair enough, ive not used v7/v8

I stand by the rest however

More pros than cons
philmcp
·năm ngoái·discuss
Doing this on 2 apps

200k users a month, not huge but not nothing

Why do you think it's a bad schema?
philmcp
·năm ngoái·discuss
10x better than mongo
philmcp
·năm ngoái·discuss
I second, third and fourth this
philmcp
·2 năm trước·discuss
In some ways, the "5 day work week" is a deadline - things need to get done before Friday.

This "deadline" is a forcing function for output.

But do you know what's a better deadline?

The 4 day work week.

It may seem silly - but artificially making the workweek shorter, makes us work faster.

It's Parkinson's Law in action.
philmcp
·2 năm trước·discuss
Is your company on https://4dayweek.io/companies btw?

If not, I'd love to add!
philmcp
·3 năm trước·discuss
Founder of 4dayweek.io here, would love to add your company to the site? If so, which company is it?
philmcp
·3 năm trước·discuss
Appreciate the shoutout!

Over 300 companies now have some form of reduced working week :)

https://4dayweek.io/companies
philmcp
·3 năm trước·discuss
I'd say SQL is the most underrated engineering skill out there.

It amazes me when competent developers / analysts / data scientists don't know (any) SQL. Have they stopped teaching this in University or something?
philmcp
·3 năm trước·discuss
The naesayers need to realise this is only GPT4

Imagine what GPT6 is going to look like
philmcp
·3 năm trước·discuss
https://4dayweek.io/