My experience: I worked part time (3.5 days/week) for a startup early in my career. The reason was so I could go to school part-time also (for jazz performance).
I've since employed many folks part-time and a lot more full time. From what I've seen, it's almost always an option, but you have to ask for it, it's not just going to be offered.
It's also trickier to manage, if you have a handful of people that work 15-20 hours/week, and are paid hourly, vs full time folks who are salaried, and managing support/on-call schedules, etc, and it can create a strange dynamic on teams sometimes.
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My experience: I worked part time (3.5 days/week) for a startup early in my career. The reason was so I could go to school part-time also (for jazz performance).
I've since employed many folks part-time and a lot more full time. From what I've seen, it's almost always an option, but you have to ask for it, it's not just going to be offered.
It's also trickier to manage, if you have a handful of people that work 15-20 hours/week, and are paid hourly, vs full time folks who are salaried, and managing support/on-call schedules, etc, and it can create a strange dynamic on teams sometimes.