Job Sharing for Professional Services Firms and Businesses
What is job sharing?
Job sharing is as it sounds - where two or more people share the same job. It allows people to work part-time in industries where part-time work has been hard to achieve – like in law and other professional services firms. It’s proven especially popular with senior women with children, as it gives them more flexibility to care for their family whilst still being able to work in their chosen careers. Why are firms interested in job sharing? Improves staff retention after motherhood Professional services firms and other businesses can use job sharing as a way to improve retention for senior staff. The lack of flexible working arrangements features highly in the reasons why senior women leave employment and this has only increased with the pandemic. |
Makes employers more attractive
Those firms that offer job-sharing as a viable way to achieve part time work, are far more attractive employers. Appearing so to candidates is increasingly important in the current tight labour market.
What do firms and job sharers want from job sharing?
Both firms and job sharers want job sharing arrangements that work! They want:
Anne-Maree Coyne, Senior Consultant with Modus Management, is passionate about job sharing. She’s been a lawyer and partner in a law firm. She’s made hard career choices at a time when job sharing was not a viable option in the legal profession. That’s no longer the case, so let her help you to make it a reality in your firm.
Those firms that offer job-sharing as a viable way to achieve part time work, are far more attractive employers. Appearing so to candidates is increasingly important in the current tight labour market.
What do firms and job sharers want from job sharing?
Both firms and job sharers want job sharing arrangements that work! They want:
- happy clients, team members and staff who can interact seamlessly with either job sharer;
- great communication facilitated by effective, efficient systems and processes that prevent things slipping through the cracks;
- the ability for job sharers to truly work part-time and not work fulltime within part-time hours; and
- a stress-free, reliable and supportive job-sharing framework that promotes organised work and high performance.
Anne-Maree Coyne, Senior Consultant with Modus Management, is passionate about job sharing. She’s been a lawyer and partner in a law firm. She’s made hard career choices at a time when job sharing was not a viable option in the legal profession. That’s no longer the case, so let her help you to make it a reality in your firm.
Targeted and Effective Induction, Onboarding and Reintegration
Professional services firms and many other businesses struggle with getting new and returning senior people up to speed quickly. They tend to focus on use of the technology and systems, and not what’s required for success in the role.
Anne-Maree Coyne wants to change this by offering:
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Anne-Maree is adding enormous value to our organisation. Her practical help and attention to detail with job sharing, onboarding, and defining roles is having such a truly positive impact on the way we work. She's a delight to work with and always goes above and beyond. "
F. Gonzalez, CEO & Principal Mechanical Engineer, Mincka Engineering Pty Ltd