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She and another woman in a different HR division - both full timers - had babies at the same time and asked their department head if they could share one job and open the other up for a new hire. It was Hawkins who had the idea of job sharing first.
Both women have young children and are committed to part-time work, but enjoy the challenge of the consultant job. Two HR consultants, Amy Hawkins and Caroline Currin, have been sharing one full-time position for about a year and a half. HR’s knowledge of flextime isn’t entirely theoretical, either. HR consultants are always available, he says, to consult on this or any other question connected with flextime. Miller says that when an employee is eligible for overtime, then special care must be taken in formulating the schedule and in record keeping to maintain compliance with applicable regulations and/or labor contract provisions. One caveat is that Wosepka was supervising mostly staff who are not eligible for overtime. People felt they were being treated respectfully as independent individuals, so I never got ‘That isn’t part of my job,’ or ‘I only work till 5.’” “The atmosphere we set up in our office was, ‘We’re going to be as flexible as we can for you, as long as you’re flexible in return,’” she says. Wosepka currently does special projects for the Business School, but for many years was the director of the undergraduate program office there and had a number of employees on flexible schedules. That kind of balance between the needs of the employee and the needs of the office is crucial, says Patsy Wosepka. And the schedule pleases her because she’ll be able to open a private practice during the off-work hours. The evening hours, she says, are very popular with students.
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Irene Arden, for example, a counselor with Counseling and Career Services at UW Bothell, has worked a number of part-time schedules, including two 10-hour days and two 8-hour days plus one 4-hour.īut her schedule has been built around the needs of the students she serves - mostly adults returning to school and working at the same time. The main sticking point is making sure that the needs of the department are being met with the alternative schedule. “The memo is there for documentation purposes, but HR does not keep a central record of each employee’s designated work schedule.” “It doesn’t need to be reported centrally,” Miller says. In most cases, if the supervisor and the employee agree, all that’s required is a memo in the employee’s file stating the schedule that has been agreed to.
“It’s usually a matter of an employee wanting to work a flexible schedule and approaching a supervisor with the idea,” he says.
“Those three hours in the morning when I can work without interruptions are the best of the day,” Bartroff says.īartroff’s story is fairly typical of UW staffers on flextime, according to Bruce Miller, a human resource analyst at the University - though the actual process is simpler today. and leaving at 4, Tuesday through Friday. “That was the first time such a thing had been authorized in the department, and it required a vote of the faculty,” Bartroff says.īut it worked out so well that she has continued the schedule to this day, arriving at her office at 5 a.m. What was worked out was “4-10s,” four 10-hour days, giving Bartroff Mondays off to deal with her new challenges. So when the faculty came to her and asked what they could do to help, Bartroff requested a change in her schedule so that she could have one day off each week. Suddenly, Bartroff found her responsibilities as a worker conflicting mightily with her responsibilities as a parent. Then, her son suffered a cataclysmic brain injury. Fifteen years ago she was a typical fiscal specialist working a normal schedule in the Zoology Department. Workers - including many University employees - are finding new ways to meet their obligations. But these days there are many more options available, from job sharing to flextime, 4-10s to telecommuting. When most of us think of a job, we immediately think of 8 to 5, Monday through Friday.
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