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- From: alisonjw@spider.co.uk (Alison J Wyld)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids,misc.jobs.misc
- Subject: Re: Is There A Mommy Track for Technical Professionals?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.181141.21921@spider.co.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 18:11:41 GMT
- References: <1993Jan19.061356.14467@fuug.fi>
- Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.
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- In article <1993Jan19.061356.14467@fuug.fi> an6814@anon.penet.fi writes:
- >
- >It seems as if a part-time career is non-existent in software engineering
- >and in professional/technical jobs in general. It's looked down upon,
- >because you can't put in those long hours on the big projects. I'm
- >willing to take a salary hit (i.e. less than half-time pay for half-time
- >work) but being cheap doesn't seem to help my cause either.
- >
- Are there such things as "job-shares" in the States ? The idea is that
- you employ two people part-time to share a single job (obviously from
- the title). They then work out who will take responsibility for which
- aspects. These are starting to become more common here - mostly in
- areas that are traditionally female, nursing, secretarial and even
- teaching, but I imagine that once a company had introduced it in a
- clerical or secretarial area, it would be easier to persuade them to
- do so in a technical area. It might be worth finding out whether
- this would be an option.
-
- Bye
-
- Alison
-