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		studius on Dec 31, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on cho... And you don't spend 100% of your days off not working. The worker interviewed in the article said, "Also being on call can be a challenge, but it's nothing that's not fixable." I understand that to mean that he's not truly working a 4-day week. He's working 4 days + on-call day(s) at times.

matchagaucho on Dec 31, 2020 [–]

We operate a five-nines service in a 4-day work week. That requires at least one person always being connected.

But culturally, it also encourages a lot of automation, redundancy, and conservative DevOps decisions.

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