What are the benefits of Job Sharing compared to working Part Time or Full Time?

Job sharing has been well documented as a form of work pattern that helps colleagues to maintain their work-life balance.

The Grid below shows the potential differences in work experiences between people who work in Full Time, Part Time and Job Share work patterns.

The examples below are drawn from real colleagues experiences and are not exhaustive.

Full Time	Part Time	Job Share
9 – 5, 5 days per average working week	9 – 5, 3 days per average working week	9 – 5, 2.5 days per average working week + 0.5 day handover to partner time.
Busy all working week	Busy for 3 days	Busy for 2.5 + 5 days
Work beyond contracted time, e.g. urgent and important work must be done	Work beyond contracted time, e.g. want to not have unfinished work which mounts up	Work to contracted time supported by handover with Job Share Partner
There are reasonable amounts of promotion opportunities	There are less amounts of promotion opportunities than Full Time	There are reasonable amounts of promotion opportunities as Job Share Partners apply as one FTE (note: realistically 1.2 FTE taking into account handover time)
Don’t get as much time with Partner and Child as would like to	Do get time to be with Partner and Child	Do get time to be with Partner and Child
One set of knowledge, skills and experience brought to one role	One set of knowledge, skills and experience brought to one role	Two sets of knowledge, skills and experience brought to one role
Can attend training on any working week day	Can only attend training on one of the 3 contracted working days	Job Share Partners can only attend training on own working days however the Job Share Partnership can share and benefit from the learning gained with each other.
Middle amount of Employee Engagement	Lowest level of Employee Engagement	Highest level of Employee Engagement

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