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Proofreading Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 17+ proofreading jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and compressed weeks—for a better work-life balance. 3 new this week. Hiring companies include Opal Group, Cape, and e.l.f. Beauty.

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9-day fortnights 2
compressed weeks 3
summer Fridays 5
unlimited PTO 2
best places to work 3

Updated October 5, 2026

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Patent Coordinator

Amgen · Remote · USA

59 · GoodGenerous PTO$79k – $107k

Marketing Coordinator

1mo

Opal Group · Remote · USA

66 · GoodSummer Fridays$1,100/mo

Marketing Coordinator

1mo

Opal Group · Remote · USA

66 · GoodSummer Fridays$1,100/mo

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Creator Success Coordinator

2mo

LTK · Remote · USA

63 · GoodSummer Fridays

Proposal Manager

16d

Myriad360 · Remote · USA

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Content Executive

2mo

Reflect Digital · Hybrid · Maidstone, England, UK

91 · Excellent4 Day Work Week£24k – £28k

Group Administrative Assistant (E)

Oak Ridge National Laboratory · Hybrid · Oak Ridge, USA

63 · Good9 Day Fortnight

Executive Assistant to the Secretary of the Corporation and the Chief of Staff

Rice University · Onsite · Houston, TX, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week

Content Marketing Specialist

L2T · Hybrid · Evanston, IL, USA

60 · GoodSummer Fridays

Associate, Community Manager

27d

e.l.f. Beauty · Hybrid · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

70 · GreatHalf Day Fridays

Office Assistant II

Valley Air District · Hybrid · Bakersfield, CA, USA

60 · Good9 Day Fortnight$4,133 – $5,026/mo

Administrative Assistant

Welch LLP · Onsite · Toronto, ON, Canada

58 · GoodSummer Fridays$55k – $58k

Copywriter

11d

Pinsent Masons · Hybrid · Birmingham +4 more

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Editorial & Production Assistant

4mo

Syracuse University · Hybrid · Syracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed Work Week

Content and Social Media Associate

19d

Cape · Hybrid · New York, USA

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO$75k – $110k

Data Capture Associate

1mo

Syndigo · Hybrid · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Paralegal/Legal Administrative Assistant

1mo

Experian · Hybrid · Costa Mesa, CA, USA

57 · GoodBest Place to Work$64k – $111k

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Proofreading on this page include Opal Group, Cape, and e.l.f. Beauty. Proofreading roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Proofreading is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Proofreading roles span the full seniority range — we list 18 open roles requiring Proofreading across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Proofreading hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Proofreading roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Proofreading candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Proofreading on current listings.