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| 164.1 | A 3.5 day week, here we come! | NZOV03::STUART | this Kiwi shares! | Wed Jan 14 1987 05:48 | 43 |
| I run our Operations department here in NZO and six months ago I created
a 'job sharing' position.
Basically, I had a need for about three to four hours work to be done
each evening, (disk to tape backups), I considered a perminent part time
employee but where would I be in the event of sickness,holidays etc.
I decided to job_share the position and now have a univerity student and
a secretary, filling this position.
The benefits as I see them are...
- they individually each appear to feel more responsible for the job, as
it is up to them to organise who is there on any given day.
- each of them doesn't feel tied to the job as much as one employee would
- I have two prospective future employees instead of one
... anyone want half my job ???
An extra story...
A woman joined our accounts department, she got on well with all her
co_workers, she did the job really well but after a year she got pregnant.
By the way she was very happy about this fact... She left to have the baby.
Another woman joined the accounts department and sat in the same chair, we
trained her, she did her job well but she too got pregnant after about 9
months and left... NB: some women now stay well clear of this chair :)
I know both of these women, they both would like to work part time and the
logistics of the job would fit job sharing. But many managers are still of
the 'old school'... needless to say, we are now training a third woman.
From my experience, I know what I would be doing. So I give my vote for job
sharing, it should be the way of the future!
.garry.
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| 164.2 | Dec doesn't do job sharing | HPSCAD::TWEXLER | | Thu Jan 15 1987 09:10 | 5 |
| When I started work last July, my manager mentioned that DEC does
not do job sharing for engineering jobs (yet :-) !). However,
maybe it's just up to the individual manager.
Tamar
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| 164.3 | Job-sharing engineers | CADSYS::RICHARDSON | | Thu Jan 15 1987 12:44 | 14 |
| Sure, we do. It's just that there is no official policy on job
sharing. So, if you want to do this, you have to have a supportive
manager. Up until a year and a half ago, I worked in a group that
had two women engineers sharing a job, and an office (they only
overlapped part of one day, and got along, so having one office
was fine).
Actually, I felt kind of sorry for them in that both of their husbands
also have professional jobs, but these women ended up working part-time
(which does a real number on your prospects for any kind of career
growth) to take care of their young kids, while their husbands worked
full time. And they couldn't have even done this at all if they
hadn't had a very supportive (woman) manager. It sure makes life's
choices that much more difficult.
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| 164.4 | it's twue, it's twue | CSC32::KOLBE | Liesl-Colo Spgs- DTN 522-5681 | Thu Jan 15 1987 20:09 | 4 |
| Another agreement that you just have to work this out with your
manager. Here at the support center I know two women specialists
that job shared. It worked well for both of them and now they are
back full time so DEC didn't lose trained employees. Liesl
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| 164.5 | job-sharing vs part-time | AQUA::SAMBERG | | Tue Jan 20 1987 12:37 | 12 |
| About job-sharing engineering jobs:
Jobs that need 8 hours a day need one person or job-sharing.
It seems to me there are lots of engineering jobs where you
can just work part-time and take part-time chunk of the
work. That's what I do.
Question for those job-sharing presently:
Do you get more benefits than a 20-hour permanent part-time
employee (which is to say no medical, no tuition,no
gift-matching, etc.)?
Eileen
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| 164.6 | Secretarial Job Sharing | CURIE::LEVITAN | | Thu Jan 22 1987 14:22 | 7 |
| Because of the lack of secretarial applicants, the TAG office is
kept quite busy. Here in ESG we had two job-sharing DEC TAGs and
it worked out quite well. The worked it so that one week one of
them worked three days and the other two - then reversed it. This
went on for about 3 months and the department ran quite smoothly.
It is my understanding that the TAG office has a group of secretaries
that have been doing this for quite some time.
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