Sentences∣Society∣Job Sharing

• Some job sharers take a smaller or larger share of the responsibilities of the position, receiving a lesser or greater share of the benefits.

• Until recently, these characteristics were not generally seen as compatible with anything less than full-time employment. Thus, the demands of job sharing are reciprocated by better pay and conditions and, ideally, more satisfaction than conventional part-time work.

• Job sharing should not be confused with the term “work sharing”, which pertain to increasing the number of jobs by reducing the number of hours of each existing job, thus offering more positions to the growing number of unemployed people.

• Job sharing’s focus, rather, is to provide well-paid work for skilled workers and professionals who want more free time for other pursuit.