How to request part time

[Thisisntus]

I’ve been at my company a long time and recently got a promotion. The work is seriously intense, far more than is reasonable for one person and I am always doing 2 jobs due to recruitment freezes. I desperately want to go part time to approx 30 hours but can’t honestly see how the workload could be offloaded to someone else. I’m quite senior and know these things are only successful with a strong business case but it’s just not obvious to me how the role can be split. It’s a marketing role.

Any advice?! I’ve been reluctant to say anything about the workload as I’m new in the role but I am burnt out.

Tell them that recruitment freeze or no recruitment freeze, you are burnt out from doing the job of two people and they need to actually employ enough people to do the work. And start looking for another job with the hours you want.

is there a flexible working policy?

I'm in pretty much the same position and am about to request 90% over 4 days from the next financial year (frequent long days travelling means this will work for me).

Due to various reasons my salary has nearly doubled in the last 3 years and I'd rather have the time than the money - due to tax, the amount I'll lose isn't that much anyway. I've spent decades filling the gaps due to others working part time and as far as I'm aware no-one has ever been refused.

Me having 'too much to do' is a separate conversation, whether I work FT or less, so I've decided to just go for it and will seek the support of my union if my employer doesn't agree.

But in your industry, you could cite the reduction in costs and identify non essential 'busywork' that you could drop to free up time for more worthwhile activities? Plus studies show that a lot of the time a reduction in working hours doesn't always lead to reduced output because people are more focussed, kind of the opposite of 'work expands to fill the time available to do it' also they're less burnt out.