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Management Advice Sought

I'm starting something I've never done next week.

One of my team is returning from Maternity leave, after being away for a whole year. She is returning 3 days a week. To ensure I continue to have the Full Time Equivalent in the position I have hired someone else to do the other 2 days of the week.

I am excited about this, as I think with the strength of our process, I should be able to get 2 heads for the price of one, get lots of new ideas and still get what we need done.

There are a number of nay-sayers within the organisation who say the job-share style arrangement will be hard to do and there will be lots of challenges. I can see it may be difficult to manage, the constant handover etc.

However the reason for this post is to see if anyone here will have any advice or warning bells for me to be aware of going into it?

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Permalink Reply by Andrew McNaught on August 31, 2009 at 11:13
Dan,
I have worked alongside a lot of job sharing situations and for the most part they do work. I've found the keys to this are; The job sharers like eachother and 'click' easily, this makes communication and expectations from each partner in the job share easier to handle. If they know that they can just pick up the phone and clarify something quickly and easily whithout feeling like they are interrupting someone on there time off then things run a lot smoother.

We ran a crossover day, where both partners were in the office at the same time for part of the day to catch up. So you might have to pay for 6 or 5.5 FT days as opposed to 5.

....and document everything!

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