Why job and top sharing?
For several years, the number of part-time employees in Switzerland has been growing steadily, especially among women.
The number of part-time workers has grown steadily in Switzerland over a number of years, especially among women. With one-third of its working population holding part-time positions, Switzerland is virtually the European record-holder where part-time work is concerned, just after the Netherlands. One third of the active population works part-time. Yet, despite helping ease the work-family balance, part-time positions rarely make it possible to attain positions of responsibility, easily change jobs or, for the employer, ensure full-time coverage at the workplace.
The effects can even be negative, restricting highly skilled people to positions without any potential for advancement, risking a diminishment of their valuable skillsets.
An innovative work model
For many qualified women who are under-utilized in their work, as well as for the increasing number of men who want to work a reduced schedule, job sharing is an innovative solution that offers significant advantages for both the employer and the employee.
In this age of digital communication coupled with the abundance of information processes via in-house corporate social networks, job sharing is developing more rapidly as a viable option, which means it can be practiced on a broader scale. With this distinctive environment, job sharing and top sharing work models are now seen as increasingly desirable by both men and women of all generations. Leading-edge companies implement these models to ensure their know-how remains current and relevant, as well as to retain valued employees and remain attractive as an employer on the labour market.
Digitalisation and job sharing
Thanks to the digitalization of communication and an abundance of information options in social networks, job sharing is becoming increasingly important and is spreading faster. In this particular context, job and top-sharing work models are in greater demand from women and men of all ages.
Companies as pioneers
This is supported by companies that take on a pioneering role because it allows know-how to be secured permanently and talent to be retained, while at the same time maintaining attractiveness on the labor market. This website provides information on the advantages and risks, on contractual aspects and on the practical details of a two-person application, as well as on the importance of the “win-win principle”.
Coaching and support during implementation
Our association PTO “Part-Time Optimisation” wants to inform employees as well as employers about the numerous facets of job and top sharing by means of various instruments as well as targeted coaching/support (linking with coachings) of duos, conferences and workshops in companies. We want to promote partnerships of this kind so that, by optimizing the economic potential of part-time workers in an increasingly digitalized environment, the Swiss labor market becomes fairer, more diverse and more flexible.
Towards a more equitable and flexible labour markets
Partnerships of this kind should be encouraged in order to make the Swiss labour market fairer, more diverse and more flexible by optimizing the economic potential of part-time workers in an increasingly digitalized environment.
