Do you work 12 hours straight? What happens when that becomes a four-day work week?
That’s the trade-off fintech trading company Jump Trading Group wants applicants to make. We’ve added a “Weekend Warrior” appendix to our production engineer job listings, which may be based in our Chicago, New York, Sydney, or Singapore offices.
The company operates as “one global team,” the job description says. In practice, this means that it takes a very long time to respond to “many global financial markets.” So far, so good. Production engineers will learn “new cutting-edge technology” and “use their hands to solve difficult technical problems.”
Next is the warrior part. The engineer will work a “modified four- or five-day work week,” including Saturdays and Sundays, “to support our infrastructure full-time.”
every third weekend
Contrary to the title, this is not a live show held every weekend. According to Jump’s calculations, this employee will work “the equivalent of one-third of the weekends per year” based on a schedule agreed with two other weekend colleagues in a given region. It will be.
On weekends “on,” engineers work 12-hour shifts that overlap with colleagues in distant time zones. However, that time is “flexible.” (A Glassdoor review of the company claims otherwise, with “inflexible hours” and “difficult to even leave your desk.”)
Jump also emphasized the community aspect of the role, given the fact that working 12-hour weekends can be lonely. “Notably, other teams have similar setups, so you’ll be joining a virtual ‘Weekend Warrior’ team online in your time zone all weekend long,” the description reads. “Also, Jump’s system is highly automated, so you’ll spend most of your time working on your project, but you’ll have immediate troubleshooting and support when you need it.”
Annual base salaries range from $150,000 to $175,000, with the opportunity for discretionary bonuses.
That salary probably isn’t enough to compensate for the hard work you do on Saturdays and Sundays. The Singapore Weekend Warrior recruitment listing was reposted on LinkedIn over three weeks ago, with just 21 applicants. (On the New York list, there are only 20.)
Four-day work weeks remain popular
Jump’s four-day work week can mean a 12-hour day, which if held constant throughout the week would result in a 48-hour week throughout the year, plus one additional work day. However, many companies that maintain a four-day work week do away with the extra day entirely, without incorporating that time into the other four days. And employees are excited about their new 32-hour work week, and are often even more productive to boot.
Performance coaching company Exos has been implementing a four-day work week for about a year and a half and says it has cut burnout, exhaustion and disconnection in half, and significantly improved outcomes.
Exos saw a 211% increase in sales pipeline within six months of the new arrangement, and within a year, 91% of employees rated themselves as highly productive, compared to 67% before the change. I said there was. Sales fell from 47% to 29% annually.
“That sense of trust has really expanded the culture of connection and loyalty,” Greg Hill, Exos’ chief human resources officer, told Fortune’s Emma Burley earlier this year. “I feel like that’s reflected in our sales numbers, both in the polls and off-site.”
It remains to be seen whether the same impact would be felt if only corporate warriors participated in the new arrangement.
