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Part time makes sense for a company if it's a specialized role that they can't saturate with 40 hours of work per week but still need on an ongoing basis. E.g.

* Remote hands for 10s of racks at a datacenter

* SOC2/auditing paperwork

* Customer service

* DBA

* Accounting, HR, and other backoffice

For most other roles (e.g. developing product software), the company would rather onboard the minimal number of people to finish quickly, so they will want full-time. It's pretty rare that a company needs part-time work for a fixed-length project, but it's sometimes useful if it's a small part of a larger project. E.g. a designer could be part time on a typical web-dev project once implementation starts.

A really good tester would be awesome to hire for 1 hour per day, but it seems like that part of the industry is unfortunately a race to the bottom, so it's probably hard for talented people to get paid what they are worth.



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