Ask HN: What companies offer part-time positions?

Sorry to hear this. Hope you found somewhere better now. In my experience with 4 day weeks - in the public sector e:g gov't, academia, it really means that. You can chill , do caring responsibilities, whatever on the 5th day. And ironically, as result you are more productive the other 4 days. Whereas the private sector is patchy. In a corporate like Google, its less likely to work. I worked for a large US corp where they allowed compressed hours. Still 4 day week but just tiring long days instead. Where they have systems comparing peoples performance on the same grade against each other (a bit like apples and oranges. ;) ) , doing PIPs etc, someone working less hours may be hurt by getting less work done at times. That's fine, because for 80% of the salary the employer should expect 80% of the work (in practice they probably get 85-90% so its a bargain). However, private employers in particular can be rigid and just see that person as having done less. If there's internal politics and everyone's trying to look better than others, sometimes working 4 days makes you miss a crucial meeting and be out of the loop of what you need to do to impress Manager X by end-of-year. Public sector by contrast, its in the culture, for years plenty of people working part-time including some senior managers, more women in senior positions who previously juggled work and kids and know what its like, and, it just works. The work gets done.

I also have a friend at Google successfully requesting a 60%, but they had to change team to do so. They also experienced pushback for it - I'm sorry it went the wrong way for you.

Sorry to hear you had that experience. I’m sure it’s a YMMV type situation and it’s not guaranteed. The few anecdata points I have show that people have done it successfully. But certainly it’s small numbers.

Why specifically women?

Yes very common in Germany and other European countries as well.

Yeah 4 day week is great and I know the creator!

I'm looking for more companies of Gumroad's type though where it's far more flexible, or maybe all employees are given the option of FT vs PT.

Won't work if there are presence monitors.

I see on their site:

> We have no set hours or expectation that you’re online from 9 to 5. You create a schedule that allows you to get your best work done.

But no mention of part time.

Why do you think so? While being really senior and very talented will always give you more options and leverage, I’ve met a lot of people at varying stages of their career do part time work.