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philmcpon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

appreciate your efforts! Long live the 4DWW

philmcpon It's Well Past Time for a Four-Day Workweek

Are you already listed on https://4dayweek.io?

If not please let me know and I can add you if you like

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.

philmcpon 996

https://4dayweek.io/pros-and-cons

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

Fair enough, ive not used v7/v8

I stand by the rest however

More pros than cons

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

Doing this on 2 apps

200k users a month, not huge but not nothing

Why do you think it's a bad schema?

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

10x better than mongo

philmcpon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)

I second, third and fourth this

philmcpon Parkinson's Law: It’s real, so use it

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.

philmcpon Google's former CEO on why the company was caught off guard by OpenAI

Is your company on https://4dayweek.io/companies btw?

If not, I'd love to add!

philmcpon Who will lead the charge to a four-day work week?

Founder of 4dayweek.io here, would love to add your company to the site? If so, which company is it?

philmcpon A 32-Hour Workweek Is Long Overdue: Bernie Sanders is calling for a reduction

Appreciate the shoutout!

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

https://4dayweek.io/companies

philmcpon SQL should be the default choice for data transformation logic

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?

philmcpon Before you believe the ChatGPT hype, ask it something you know well

The naesayers need to realise this is only GPT4

Imagine what GPT6 is going to look like

philmcpon Burn-out, daunting work, overstretched, and it's just too much

https://4dayweek.io/

philmcpon Is 40 hours a week too much?

Did you return to a 5 day week out of interest? If not I'd love to add the company to https://4dayweek.io/

philmcpon Companies ran an experiment: Pay workers their full salary to work fewer days

Over 200 companies have now made the switch to a 32hr work week: https://4dayweek.io/companies

The benefits for the employee are pretty obvious, but there are also many benefits for the company:

- Staff are more productive (for previous pilots: output almost always hits 100%)

- Job listings get (way) more applications

- Staff are happier

- Staff are healthier i.e. off sick less

- It's better for the environment

- Staff turnover reduces

- It attracts experienced candidates

- Costs reduce

- It's better for gender equality

Most of these companies on the site offer 100% salary, some offer 80% (but I hope to remove these in the future)

philmcpon The four-day workweek works

I've spoken to 100+ companies who have switched to a 4 day work week over the last couple of years (I've been building https://4dayweek.io)...

And I only know of 1 or 2 who switched back to 5 days

I think this speaks volumes in itself

philmcpon Ask HN: How do you get side gigs?

Here are some options:

https://4dayweek.io/remote-jobs/part-time (Disclaimer: I'm the founder)

https://www.toptal.com/

https://gun.io/

https://arc.dev/

https://www.blockchaindevs.net/ (Disclaimer: I'm the founder + I launched yesterday)

https://lemon.io/

https://www.turing.com/

philmcpon Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee?

Most companies originally had a 5 day week, but dropped to 4 days without effecting salaries

So typically the salaries are "market rate". Difficult to say for sure though as most companies still don't disclose this

As for the job you mentioned, I know which company this is and its for a part-time job (i.e. not a 4 day week for 100% salary)

Speaking honestly, I added the part time jobs are added to "bolster" content (given there are so few 4 day week jobs atm). I'd recommend focusing on the jobs marked as "4 day week", they are typically "higher quality"

philmcpon Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee?

Love this! From every 4 day week company I've spoke to, they all say the same thing:

Output hasn't changed

And if this ever becomes a company wide policy (e.g. 4 days for 100% or 80% salary), please let me know :)

philmcpon Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee?

In my previous job I asked my boss if he would let me drop down to 3 days per week (60% salary). To my slight surprise, he was totally fine with it

I did this after working hard for ~1 year at the company. Once you prove your worth, it's in your employers interests to keep you i.e. it would cost them way more if you left for another job with shorter working hours so don't be afraid to ask

If it was doing it again though, I'd request this during my yearly review, and I'd ask for a 4 day week with no drop in salary

There are already companies offering a 32 hours work week though:

https://4dayweek.io/

Disclaimer: I'm the founder

philmcpon Glasgow council four-day week on full pay moves closer after study agreed

Lots of 4 day week companies without a 20% pay cut:

https://4dayweek.io/companies

philmcpon The biggest ever four-day workweek trial kicks off in the UK

There are now 200+ companies piloting a 4 day work week

And 150+ more have already made the switch e.g. https://4dayweek.io/companies

I don't know what the future of work looks like

But I know it ISN'T 9-5, five days a week.