Making Part-Time Work - by Charlotte Gascoigne (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

There is an urgent need for more high-quality part-time jobs, both to get more people into work and to improve worker wellbeing and job performance. Too often, part-time opportunities are badly designed or career-limiting. What would it take to get employers to create more and better part-time jobs?

Charlotte Gascoigne presents the business case evidence for part-time working and argues for a radical rethink of how jobs are designed. More than 40 case studies across a range of occupations demonstrate how managers who take a collaborative approach to work design can create more effective and productive part-time jobs.

Aimed at employers, HR professionals and policy makers, this book calls on employers and governments to bring part-time work into the mainstream, for the benefit of workers, organizations and the economy.

About the Author

Dr Charlotte Gascoigne is an independent researcher and consultant with 25 years' experience of working with employers on part-time and flexible working. Her recent roles have included Principal Research Fellow at Cranfield University, where she worked on an ESRC-funded project exploring part-time work, and Director of Research and Consultancy at the Timewise Foundation. Her PhD investigated part-time work design for managers and professionals in the UK and the Netherlands.