Women and the 32-Hour Workweek
Our video team shot this short documentary on Treehouse, a tech start-up with a very non-traditional outlook on the workweek:
One reader raises an interesting point:
While I appreciate the overall message and goal that the CEO is trying to create with this schedule, I would have loved to have heard more from women working at Treehouse. Women in tech are already an underrepresented minority, and this sort of scheduling will have a far greater effect on their lives because (although this is a big generalization that I’m sure I'll get burned for in the comments section), women are often responsible for the majority of childcare, cooking, and cleaning in the home.
Instead, in the video, we have two prominently positioned males within the company who primarily discuss how such scheduling allows them more time to relax and be creative, with only a brief acknowledgement that the truncated work hours “likely help my wife.”
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