[SpaceL10n]

I've recently negotiated a 4-day work week with my employer. It's been a huge quality of life improvement. Whether I make $80k/yr or $150k/yr, it doesn't matter as much to me as quality of life. Maybe I'm an outlier, but money isn't everything.

If smaller companies can't compete on the huge salaries and options that larger companies provide, they can certainly compete on flexible work schedules. A developer working 4 days a week is pretty much just as useful to me as the engineering manager as a developer who is working 5 days a week. Budget and schedule.

[Ericson2314]

if everyone does it, labor will become more scarse, and wages should go back up too to recover the some or all of missing 1/5, so please everyone do this!

[marcosdumay]

Only if total production goes down. If productivity increases enough to compensate (what really looks like the case), it should have no impact on wages.

[908B64B197]

> If smaller companies can't compete on the huge salaries and options that larger companies provide, they can certainly compete on flexible work schedules.

They certainly can compete. Just raise more or adopt a stock comp model.

[bobthepanda]

Not all companies looking to hire devs have massive injections of VC money to play with.

Tech at this point is needed to some degree in lots of products.

[908B64B197]

Maybe they need better founders.