At lunch with a colleague from your department last week, you discovered that as

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At lunch with a colleague from your department last week, you discovered that as much as you both love your jobs, family obligations are making it difficult to keep working full time. Unfortunately, your company doesn't offer any conventional part- time jobs because it needs to keep positions such as yours staffed five days a week. However, you have heard about the concept of job sharing, in which two people divide a single job. Research job sharing. Identify the pros and cons from the perspectives of the employer and the employees involved. Using AIDA approach, draft a persuasive email message to your supervisor, outlining the benefits and addressing the potential problem areas. Your call to action should be to ask your supervisor to propose job sharing to company management.

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Job sharing refers to the arrangement when two or multiple people share one Job by working on different days and Different Shift of the days.

Employer Perspective

Pros

Increased Human productivity and relaxed employees

Better Communication and Commitment in work among employees

Lower dissatisfaction among employee

Cons

Frequent changes in partner leads to pressure on recruiting department

Trouble in deciding employee benefits such as health, insurance etc.

Increase Training cost plus administrative

Division of labour guidelines

Bad partner results in poor collaborating

May have to bear the double the cost of employing single resource

Employee Perspective

Pros

Enough time for relaxation

Reduced stress level

Better work and life balance

Peer Learning

Long Term Career Perspective

Cons

Division of salary and benefits

Having bad parent create more inconvenience at work division

Heavy competition

Email Subject: Proposal for Introduction of Job share policy in the Company

Dear Sir/Ma’am

I would like to inform you that recently most of the employees have been feeling a bit difficulty in managing the work life balance in our company. To address the problem, I have come across the proposal of Job share. Job sharing refers to the arrangement when two or multiple people share one Job by working on different days and Different Shift of the days. I believe that this could be a win- win situation for the company as well as employee too. I am also mentioning the benefit of the same below here.

Employer Perspective

Pros

Increased Human productivity and relaxed employees

Better Communication and Commitment in work among employees

Lower dissatisfaction among employee

Employee Perspective

Pros

Enough time for relaxation

Reduced stress level

Better work and life balance

Peer Learning

Long Term Career Perspective

From analysing the above benefit, my recommendation of how we can introduce the policy in our company goes as: In Job share the same will be divide across two partner employees and they will work in different shift to manage the task properly. They will share the salary, employee benefits etc equally between them.

I would request you to give a consideration over this proposal and request the same to upper management for implementation.

Please revert in case of any more clarification, I would be happy you help.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely

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