I had an idea for a job board and whipped up this site. What do you think?
Shorter work weeks seem to be a slowly growing trend:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/07/working-fewer-hours-makes-you-productive-new-zealand-trial
https://www.fastcompany.com/90205776/the-four-day-work-week-works
Job seekers — does this speak to you? Would you sign up for this mailing list?
Employers/hiring managers — how many of you are embracing the shorter work week? Is this the sort of group you would recruit from or is the premise unappealing?
Neat idea! I've only heard of a few companies that do a 30 hour week, the one the sticks out to me is Treehouse (teamtreehouse.com).
I always imagined that the jobs would be few and far between, so I would be interested in a job board focused on that niche.
Awesome, thanks for pointing that out!
I think this will be a trend in the coming years for sure.
Signing up now. I was toying with the idea of building something like this yesterday - I'd rather just use yours though ;) I was inspired by the podcast "Eat, Sleep, Work, Repeat". Specifically, the ROWE episode - Results-Only Word Environment. I love the idea of less than 40 hours for full-time work. In a knowledge based, creative field (UX designer), I often feel I'm just filling in hours at times vs maximizing my time and the quality of the time I put into a product.
I'll sign-up and hope this takes off :)
Thanks Ben!
I'm checking out that podcast episode right now. Thanks for the suggestion ;)
I agree. In a knowledge-based field if I'm low on mental energy I know I can do better work if I take a break — or at least switch up the type of work.
Thanks for the support!
The big thing with job boards is to focus on an industry or local area to hit critical mass of job posters & people searching for jobs. Which strikes me as hard to get, but maybe some of the marketing gurus on here would have ideas.
Thanks, that's a good point. The niche I'm aiming for here is the 4-day workweek crowd.
I'm trialing it right now but it seems to be resonating fairly well with visitors!
Chrome gives me an ugly warning about phishing and says your https is invalid. It definitely seems like a cool concept, the only thing I'd maybe to is niche it down, as in, 30hourstechjobs, or the like.
Arg, I've heard that. I have no idea why.
The error I've seen is that it is a "phishing site". Https should be good.
If you click "report an error" and send it to Google, I would be very appreciative!
Same for me. It's probably because "Google Safe Browsing recently detected phishing on analytics.lucent.is. Phishing sites pretend to be other websites to trick you."
That's just my self-hosted Google Analytics alternative. 😔
Anti-competition much?
Looks like the issue with your site is not https but you are using a tracking URL/js /analytics.lucent.is/tracker.js which is not liked by chrome. what is this analytics service ? It is marked as phishing by google.
Yes.. I'm not sure why it is flagged. It is my own site and I'm self-hosting usefathom.com as an alternative to Google Analytics.
You should probably use an open SSL: https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/ Chrome isn't trusting you.
Regardless, I like the concept. Am interested in what opportunities there are for this time constraint of work. Do you have any job samples? Descriptions? That would instill a bit more trust in giving you my email, ya kno?
Thanks, I think it's actually a phishing warning. But I'm not sure why it's being shown. (details below)
Thanks for the feedback. I'll try and get some example jobs up on the site.
Try removing analytics - the warning directly mentions "Lucent".
Thanks. Removed for now.
lucent.is is my own site. I'm self-hosting usefathom.com as a Google Analytics alternative.
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