Does anyone jobshare? If so, do you have any tips?

[suchawuss]

Me and an ex-colleague have just hatched a plan to potentially market ourselves as a team to a new employer, with the intention of job sharing 3 days + 2 days.

Does anyone have any experience of this, i.e. approaching a company as a ready-made team as opposed to just applying for one half of a position?

I have some ideas what to say to sell the idea to any sceptical employers, but wondered if anyone can put forward some good tips.

I don't think our industry is particularly used to people job-sharing, so need to come up with as many pros as possible

Would you both be prepared to do five-day stints if the other one were on holiday or sick? Built-in cover like that would be invaluable.

I guess I would probably be able to do that more easily than my colleague, as my childcare arrangements are more flexible.

But how would that work in practice though? If one of us is sick and the other covers, you don't get paid extra do you, so not really much incentive as you'd end up paying to go to work effectively wouldn't you, as you would be paying for childcare.

I suppose a day here or there is not really an issue though, as long as it goes both ways...

Thanks for bringing that up though, Ninedragons, I hadn't really thought about it.

I did jobshare for a couple of years.

We were two different employees working in different parts of the same job. But were careful to know what the other was up to in case a question came in in the other's days off.

However, we didn't apply as a team, she had been doing part of the time for a while, when I joined in for the reminder.