At lunch with a colleague from your department last week, you discovered that as much as you both love your jobs, family obligations are making it difficult to keep working full-time. Unfortunately, your company doesn’t offer any conventional part-time jobs because it needs to keep positions such a yours staffed five days a week. However, you have heard about the concept of job sharing, in which two people divide a single job. 

Your task: 

With a partner, research job sharing. Identify the pros and cons from the perspectives of the employer and the employees involved. Using the AIDA approach, draft a persuasive email message to your supervisor, outlining the benefits and addressing the potential problem areas. Your call to action should be to ask your supervisor to propose job sharing to company management.