We're moving to a four-day work week at Beacon
I work a four-day week (80% time, not imagining 4-10s) as a software engineer at a non-profit academic organization. For a paycut basically, I make 80% of what I think of as my &quot;actual&quot; salary.<p>I have managed to do this at a succession of several jobs now. When I briefly tried to go back to 5 days, it was really hard. It seems insane to me now that anyone works 5 days a week. (And I do know plenty of people work even more, and I am very lucky).<p>Fridays are for doctor&#x27;s appointments and car repair and grocery shopping and errands. Which probably does mean I&#x27;m away from &quot;work hours&quot; for these things less than I would be full-time, I just schedule such things for Fridays where possible. In general, I am pretty convinced that I&#x27;m at least 90% as productive on 80% time as I would be on 100%, maybe more.<p>Working at non-profit academic, I&#x27;m definitely not making my &quot;market&quot; salary. I could be making a lot more than I am now, even at 80% of a salary, at various more typical organizations. But I&#x27;m not sure how viable the 4-day week is with potential employers -- even if I&#x27;m willing to take a paycut to 80% of salary, which I am! Unlike the OP which is giving everyone a 4-day week at full salary? My impression is that most high-paying software engineering jobs&#x2F;organizations are not going to let you do 4-days a week?  Which is crazy when they could get me for 80% of the cost with most of the productivity -- but I guess the high-paying organizations aren&#x27;t exactly trying to save money on salary.<p>I really don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d go back to 40-hour-a-week-standard unless I had to.