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Which (tech) companies have the best work life balance?

philmcp — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:57:59 +0000

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.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941993

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by philmcp in "(accidental post)"

philmcp — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:57:02 +0000

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.

(accidental post)

philmcp — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:57:02 +0000

Article URL: https://4dayweek.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941975

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by philmcp in "996"

philmcp — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 16:13:14 +0000

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

New comment by philmcp in "This is the only Postgres schema you need, change my mind"

philmcp — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:29:14 +0000

Fair enough, ive not used v7/v8

I stand by the rest however

More pros than cons

New comment by philmcp in "This is the only Postgres schema you need, change my mind"

philmcp — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:28:18 +0000

Doing this on 2 apps

200k users a month, not huge but not nothing

Why do you think it's a bad schema?

New comment by philmcp in "This is the only Postgres schema you need, change my mind"

philmcp — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 13:54:16 +0000

10x better than mongo

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

philmcp — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 13:19:04 +0000

CREATE TABLE x (

id uuid DEFAULT uuid_generate_v4() PRIMARY KEY,

data jsonb,

inserted timestamp with time zone DEFAULT now(),

updated timestamp with time zone

);

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404517

Points: 5

# Comments: 14

New comment by philmcp in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)"

philmcp — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:16:52 +0000

I second, third and fourth this

New comment by philmcp in "Parkinson's Law: It’s real, so use it"

philmcp — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 10:53:53 +0000

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.

New comment by philmcp in "Google's former CEO on why the company was caught off guard by OpenAI"

philmcp — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 12:55:35 +0000

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

If not, I'd love to add!

New comment by philmcp in "Who will lead the charge to a four-day work week?"

philmcp — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 19:28:50 +0000

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

New comment by philmcp in "A 32-Hour Workweek Is Long Overdue: Bernie Sanders is calling for a reduction"

philmcp — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 23:05:50 +0000

Appreciate the shoutout!

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

https://4dayweek.io/companies

The climate benefits of a four-day workweek

philmcp — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 14:36:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230220-is-a-4-day-workweek-good-for-the-climate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35055777

Points: 36

# Comments: 9

New comment by philmcp in "SQL should be the default choice for data transformation logic"

philmcp — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:59:53 +0000

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?

New comment by philmcp in "Before you believe the ChatGPT hype, ask it something you know well"

philmcp — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 00:39:14 +0000

The naesayers need to realise this is only GPT4

Imagine what GPT6 is going to look like

New comment by philmcp in "Burn-out, daunting work, overstretched, and it's just too much"

philmcp — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 23:36:21 +0000

https://4dayweek.io/

Poems about Programming Languages – as written by ChatGPT

philmcp — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:44:51 +0000

Article URL: https://4dayweek.medium.com/9-poems-about-programming-languages-as-written-by-ai-c1731340a302

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33928481

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Google's helpful content update prioritises content written by people

philmcp — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 01:16:03 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.google.com/search/updates/helpful-content-update

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33902825

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by philmcp in "Is 40 hours a week too much?"

philmcp — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 23:37:08 +0000

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