I've been doing webdesign and WordPress consulting and products for almost 7 years now. Basically started when I was 24.

7 Years later, I can say I was happy and bloody lucky that the business grew. That growth was channeled towards a different kind of company.

We work 4 days a week, hardly any overtime (we actively discourage it), 1 hour launch brakes, anyone can take what vacation time they see fit + we enforce a very low maintenance two weeks for Christmas and 1 week for Easter when we just do minimal support for our clients.

However, this didn't happen over night. We pushed towards this for the past 7 years. Luckily enough my business partner was on the same page with me and we've yet to hear complaints from our employees regarding the schedule :)

Please note we're not some "look at us how cool we are" kind of company. We still have problems. For such a small company we should communicate internally better, but we don't. This leisurely pace means it takes us longer to innovate and ship things and the revenues and salaries are modest.

But we're profitable and at the end of the day I'm at 6 PM I'm at home spending time with my daughter and so are my colleagues.

So it's possible, but at the same time, if I look back, there were some really long hours for the first 3 years. I guess we were just lucky enough to see that it's didn't have to stay that way.