Jobshare Stories

What does the research actually say about job sharing — and what does it tell us about the future of the workforce? In this episode of Jobshare Stories, we're joined by Dr Dawn H Nicholson, business psychologist and honorary academic, whose career spans Morgan Stanley, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the University of Kent. Dawn is one of the few academics in the UK to have conducted detailed research...

What does it look like when jobsharing becomes a genuine career strategy — not just a flexible working arrangement? In this episode of Jobshare Stories, we speak with Verity Prime and Laura Lucking, Executive Directors at the National Audit Office — the UK's public spending watchdog. Over six years and five organisations, they've jobshared their way from the Department for Education through COVID...

What happens when you see job sharing modelled at every level around you, early in your career — and years later, find yourself doing exactly that in a senior role? In this episode of Jobshare Stories, we speak with Linsey Craike and Megan Bradish, Deputy Directors in the Department of Health and Social Care. Megan is Linsey's second job share partner, making this a particularly rich conversation...

What does it really take to make job sharing work and why should organisations care? In this weeks episode of Jobshare Stories, Beccy Ireland and Sarah Trinham from Beiersdorf share their experience of job sharing their role as Marketing manager for the Nivea Men’s Brand - a setup that began eight months ago with Beccy and Lydia, and has since evolved as Sarah recently returned from maternity leav...

What if some of our most senior leadership roles were designed differently? In this episode of Jobshare Stories, we speak with Tessa Griffiths and Sarah MacLean, who are the Co-CEOs of Skills England, having jobshared together in a multitude of roles for over 18 years.  Our conversation shines a light on jobsharing at the very top and why it might be one of the most powerful, and underused, leader...

Clare Freshwater-Turner and Annabelle Richards have jobshared a varied career at Lloyds Banking Group - ranging from Finance Learning & Development, ESG, Executive Assistant and core Finance and Accounting roles. Their story is one of the power of jobsharing to create opportunity and unlock potential.  In this episode we explore their career-share and what motivates them to support other jobsh...

In the latest episode of the podcast, We spoke with Monique Kent and Simon Oliver, who job share the Head of Communications role at Imperial War Museums. Together they lead a major national organisation across five sites, manage a large team, and handle everything from long-term strategy to crisis communications. This partnership came together following Monique’s return from parental leave with Si...

In this episode we're shining a light on the brilliant work of Ford Credit Europe, where they implemented a unique jobshare matching app - to enable Ford employees to connect with potential jobshare partners. This app was spearheaded by the inspiring Sian Hodgson-Wood, Director of Engineering at Ford Credit Europe - a jobsharer herself who was determined to throw the ladder down and support others...

Join Chloe and Laura, co-founders of The Jobshare Revolution to chat about the progress made in jobsharing in the UK in 2025. Highlights include Julia Gillard (former Australian Prime Minister) shouting about the power of jobsharing, a 41% rise in jobsharing pairs in the UK and research showing jobsharing being even more productive than an individual employee. Chloe and Laura also reflect on their...

Kate Muhwezi and Alex Kent have been Co-CEOs at Restless Development since 2021.  Brought together at a pivotal moment, Kate and Alex combine their distinct strengths — one a campaigning leader, the other an operational expert — to cover multiple executive roles with less than two full-time equivalents. Their approach shows that leadership can be both collaborative and strategically efficient. At...

Nick Nugent is blazing a trail at JP Morgan. As one of the first men to jobshare at the firm, he has led the way on opening up jobsharing and showing the power of part-time working to enable men (and women) to work in a way that works for them. Jobsharing has created a great way for JP Morgan to manage succession planning, retain skills and experience, whilst enabling two brilliant individuals to...

What if job sharing could unlock new opportunities, accelerate your career, and give you the flexibility to pursue multiple passions? In this episode, we speak with Stephen Glover, Executive Director for Strategic Finance at UCL and CIMA Fellow, about his remarkable 8+ year journey as a job sharer. From the Civil Service to higher education, Stephen’s story shows how job sharing can evolve, adapt,...

In this wide ranging episode, Caroline & Heather talk about their journey from initially meeting working on 24/7 Ministry of Defence projects, through to jobsharing senior roles across the Civil Service, implementing flexible working practices within the Department for Education and now blazing a trail as Chief Operations Officer of a large multi-academy trust.  In important aspect of their pa...

Rhiannon Clapperton and Lisa Watch have navigated through 3 different roles as jobshare partners - progressing through to Director of Policy & Communication at Kinship.  In this episode, they talk about jobsharing driving accountability, ambition and energy and how jobsharing enabled them to live a life without compromise - achieving their work and personal ambitions concurrently.  #JobShareJo...

In this episode of Jobshare Stories, Kate Righton & Rebecca Barnett from Haleon share how they turned a shared life stage and desire for balance into a high-performing partnership that benefits both them and their organisation. They reveal the role of coaching and intentional planning in making jobsharing a success - plus they share their top tips for making a job share work. It's a brilliant...

Jenny and Laura are the Co-Directors of People at Leeds Community Health Care Trust and the Leeds GP Confederation. Their jobshare has stood the test of time - having come together over 8 years ago and still going strong!  In this episode we talk about how jobshare enabled them to step up to Director and gave both them and the organisation increased resilience. They also talk about the importance...

Is Co Leadership the Future of work and what impact could it have on your organisation?   In today’s podcast, we’re speaking to Stefanie Junghans; certified organisational developer, coach, and co-leadership expert. Stefanie has “walked the talk”, having shared two leadership roles herself before launching her consultancy to help organisations rethink how they lead. We dive into how co-leadership...

At the start of the new academic year in the UK, we're highlighting the power of jobsharing to facilitate studying! We're joined on today's podcast episode by a trail blazing pair who jobshared whilst studying undergraduate and masters degrees.  Abby Murphy and Georgia Hyland talk articulately about how much jobsharing supported them and their organisation, early in their careers. Specifically, jo...

Julia and Anna are an ambitious, driven jobsharing partnership who started out on their jobsharing journey 7 years ago.  After progressing as a partnership in a large German corporate, they now freelance together supporting jobsharers throughout their end to end journey.  Having active experience of jobsharing, whilst also being change and transformation experts by profession they are well placed...

In this week's episode we talk to Jo Nicol - finance leader and serial jobsharer. Jo is in the somewhat unique position of having shared with 4 different jobshare partners over a period of almost 15 years. Having worked full time, part-time and as a jobshare, Jo talks about the impact of jobsharing on her life and how jobsharing enabled her to fulfil her work and home ambitions. She also talks abo...

Hannah Essex and Claire Walker are Co - CEOs of Society of London Theatre & UK Theatre. Theirs is a longstanding partnership having come together initially at Teach First before progressing to being Co-Executive Directors at the British Chambers of Commerce before moving to their current role. In this episode, they talk about their journey of progressing as a partnership, including sharing som...

Karen Hutchinson and Francesca Berry are Partners in the Commercial Litigation department at Stewarts.  After coming together as a pair on a trial basis over 8 years ago, they have since been promoted twice as a pair, firstly to Legal Directors and then to Partners. In this episode, they talk about the process of applying for partnership together, why their clients are overwhelmingly positive abou...

Rowan Aust and Michelle Reynolds are determined to change the TV industry. In this episode we talk about how ReelTime Media researches and creates "good work" - that pays well and contributes to worker wellbeing as well as organisational outcomes. Jobsharing is a core part of this and at ReelTime Media, they're innovating in collaboration with ScreenSkills to create jobsharing partnership to trans...

Kulsoom Ali and Suzy McCormick jobshare the role of Head of Talent and Inclusion in the UK Health Security Agency.   Their partnership came together in one of the most intensive periods of recent history - the start of the Covid pandemic, as they were asked to work on the NHS Test and Trace programme. Their story shows the true benefit of jobsharing in senior, demanding, pressurised roles where yo...

In this special one off episode, Laura and Chloe come together to deep dive and lift the lid on the state of play on gender equity in the UK in 2025 and try to answer the question - Do we still need International Women's Day. This brilliant episode dives into the facts of where we are today on gender equity in the UK, breaks down what the gender pay gap is and why it still matters, highlights key...