Software giant seeking to hire 500 people dangles perk: Fridays off

Avanade, a technology solutions company jointly owned by Accenture and Microsoft, recently announced it would open an engineering hub in the Tampa Bay region — its first in the United States — and hire a whopping 500 software engineers, over the next three years, to staff it.

That’s a tall order. But Josh Fink, Avanade’s director of North American engineering hubs, believes the firm’s hybrid work environment and alternative work week will prove to be difference-makers.