Thought Experiment - Pay and Labor
Imagine that your employer split your full-time job into four 10-hour-per-week jobs, and that you could have as many of them as you wanted. That is, you could work three of them and net yourself less money but more free time, or work five and net more in your bank account each week.
Also, imagine that all of the jobs at your company were split up like this. Whose job might you like to take for 10 or 20 hours a week, in exchange for 10 or 20 hours of yours?
Anyone know of any employers that do anything like this on even a moderate scale? I'm curious about how and whether it would work, and pay any kinds of dividends in productivity, morale, expense, or any other metric.
Comments
Hmm. Well, there are companies that are good at increasing/decreasing your hourly week, and it does improve both morale and retention (which saves a considerable amount in recruitment costs). I loved the 30 hours a week I had at one of them. But I don't know of any that put aspects of job up for trade. Frankly, although I love the idea, I think it would be extremely hard to do. Finding the right people and allocating work appropriately is already one of the hardest parts of running a business, and this would make it much more complicated.