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Tanya X. Short (Captain, Kitfox Games)
Location: Room 2005, West Hall
Date: Tuesday, March 19
Time: 3:50 pm - 4:20 pm
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass, Indie Games Summit Pass - Get your pass now!
Topic: Independent Games
Format: Session
Vault Recording: Video
Audience Level: Intermediate
Kitfox is in its third year of a 4-day workweek, only 8 hours per day. It's a massively popular policy at the studio, such that 50% of their staff said in a survey that if they had to change jobs, they would need double their salary to return to 5-days per week, and 30% said they "probably could not be persuaded" to return to 5 days at all. Their Captain and co-founder Tanya X. Short steps up to delve into the details of their implementation, in all its snaggy, hiccupy glory. How do you account for federal holidays, or taxes, or contractors, or employee resilience? And the million-dollar question, she'll even dare to answer "Is it as productive?", with as much evidence as she can muster.
If you're considering implementing a 4-day workweek, or have recently done so, this talk should prepare you with all of the questions to ask yourself, your colleagues, and your producers, as well as an inkling as to what unanticipated wrinkles may appear over the long term.
Anyone curious about the realities of a 4-day workweek should attend, whether skeptical or a true believer.
