job-share

American  

[job-shair] / ˈdʒɒbˌʃɛər /

verb (used without object)

job-shared, job-sharing

1. to share the responsibility and duties of a single full-time job with one or more other employees.

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noun

1. an arrangement in which two or more employees share one full-time job.

Other Word Forms

• job-sharer
  noun

Etymology

Origin of job-share

First recorded in 1975–80; job ¹ ( def. ) + share ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

job-share job-shared job-sharing

Varadkar, 45, has had two spells as taoiseach — between 2017 and 2020, and again since December 2022 as part of a job-share with Micheál Martin, head of coalition partner Fianna Fáil.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

Now, just to find a player stuck in home confinement so they can job-share.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2021

I was gutted to stop working alongside my amazing job-share, Heather Stewart, but excited to find myself back at our headquarters in King’s Cross.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2018

With the new director reporting to Mr. Weiss, and not the other way around, many aspects of the job-share still have to be worked out.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2017

Royal officials also described media reports of a mother and son "job-share" as incorrect.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2014

I’ve never been to a school where kindergarten teachers job-shared for exactly the reasons you mention.

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2019

It said that flexible working did not just mean working from home but also included job-sharing, flexitime or staggered hours.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2022

There were job-sharing experiments both at “Hadestown” and “Jagged Little Pill” that turned out to be short-lived, for different reasons.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2022

We’ve created part-time options and other forms of employment, like job-sharing or sabbaticals of varying lengths of time, when we thought we were going to lose women.

From Reuters ● Dec. 30, 2021

Flexible arrangements — ranging from job-sharing to staggered start and finish times or compressed working hours — are used frequently by a range of employees, notably parents and caregivers, and in by particular working women.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2021

It’s entirely possible that the school was trialing the job-sharing and secretly hoping for feedback from the parents on how well it went.

From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2019