@grayface_ghostWhy don't tech companies hire people on part-time contracts? Given the proportion of programmers who are neurospicy (I have no stats, just we seem to be drawn to it) you'd have thought it would be a good way to attract folk.
Now I'm apparently at least temporarily semi-retired, I struggle to get up and moving on a morning. If I had, say, a four hour remote shift from 8 til 12, that wouldn't even cut into my day. And I could earn some money and they could get my coding output and everybody would be happy.
But no, it's all back to office and high pressure environment and move fast break shit and work all day every day until you find out the pension you saved for us disappearing up Trump's arse because he's no better at running an economy than he was at businesses.
Seriously though, why? I honestly think two 4 hours a day programmers would be more productive than a single 8.
@grayface_ghost Two 8 hours a day programmers are usually less productive than a single 8.
Software development scales really badly by adding people; it is a truism of software project management that trying to deliver a software project faster by adding more people is like trying to put out a fire by adding more petrol.
The more developers you have, the more meetings and management you need to keep them all working together and not building wildly incompatible solutions to the same problem.
@grayface_ghost@tech.lgbtI've never known anyone able to work at full burn coding for eight hours a day. Just sayin'.
I don't.think human brains can sustain it effectively. 4 hours? Maybe.
I agree about the more people thing in practice but that's often down to mistakes at the design level imho. That said I've only ever worked in or led small teams.