job-share
Americanverb (used without object)
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of job-share
First recorded in 1975–80; job 1 ( def. ) + share 1 ( def. )
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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
And as we job-share in the kitchen we chat easily.
From BBC ● May 14, 2022
Now, just to find a player stuck in home confinement so they can job-share.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
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
Hodgson has had little more than a month to get England ready, starting as a job-share with West Bromwich Albion, and he admitted it had been a gruelling introduction.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2012
I’ve never been to a school where kindergarten teachers job-shared for exactly the reasons you mention.
From Slate ● Apr. 25, 2019
Mr Skates temporarily stepped away from the Welsh government cabinet in 2021 to gain a better work-life balance, claiming he would still be in his role if job-sharing was allowed.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2024
Scholz also suggested the Commissioners, currently one from each member state, start job-sharing to prevent the apparatus from growing beyond the ability to function with the next enlargement.
From Reuters ● Aug. 29, 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
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
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