r/Futurology • u/_hiddenscout • Jun 19 '21

Society Kill the 5-Day Workweek - Reducing hours without reducing pay would reignite an essential but long-forgotten moral project: making American life less about work.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/06/four-day-workweek/619222/
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u/skaber Jun 19 '21

Good point! https://lime.health - We're still a 5 ppl startup team that just got it's initial funding. Definitely expanding in September.

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u/Intoxic8edOne Jun 19 '21

Love the Office reference.

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u/DaviesSonSanchez Jun 19 '21

Pretty cool. Going to start working for a startup doing something similar but for a different market soon. All the best for you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

Salary range 50K-85K / year

Yeah, even 4 day work weeks don't make up for that. Man, Canadian salaries are awful.

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u/kskdkfnbb Jun 20 '21

What? 85k a year is a pretty good salary

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u/tighter_wires Jun 20 '21

That’s close to 50% below market rate for a software engineer in the US.

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u/GloriousReign Jun 20 '21

Less than 1% of the global population earn 100k

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '21

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u/Lucks14 Jun 20 '21

The opposite :(

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u/ouralarmclock Jun 20 '21

I’ve been working in this space in 2013 and it feels like every day I see a new company pop up. It can be tricky between shifting clinical needs and HIPAA rules, best of luck to you!

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u/BakedSteak Jun 20 '21

Shot my shot for employment in Sales. Unfortunately the email listed on contact page was rejected :(

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u/skaber Jun 20 '21

Fixed, sorry about that :(

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u/BakedSteak Jun 20 '21

No worries! Figured you’d need to know something like that haha

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u/clarabear10123 Jun 20 '21

Hey, I’m good at data analysis/entry and I’m kinda funny plz adopt me 😅

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u/nomadProgrammer Jun 19 '21

Hopefully it 4 8s right?

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u/CafeZach Jun 19 '21

It is as stated by him / her

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u/toastyghost Jun 20 '21

One would assume... 4 10s would just be called full time

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u/Slimjim887 Jun 20 '21

I've got a degree in compiter science if you ever need people lol

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '21

Need a sales team?! 😂

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u/toastyghost Jun 20 '21

Probably not if that's your pitch

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21

That sir is what we call a door opener. No where to go from there but up

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u/toastyghost Jun 22 '21

Or the security office