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Part-Time Works from Timewise x Standard Life Centre for the Future of Retirement

Part-Time Works from Timewise x Standard Life Centre for the Future of Retirement

Written by: Timewise
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 Claire Campbell, CEO of the social enterprise Timewise hosts a podcast designed to help the UK’s 8 million part-time workers go from surviving, to thriving, in collaboration with the longevity think thank, the Standard Life Centre for the Future of Retirement. Featuring real-life conversations between part-time workers on what really works, anyone who has ever considered a part-time job will have lots to take away – as will managers of part-time workers. Time to start making part-time work better, one conversation at a time.

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Episodes
  • Modern part time-working - from tackling assumptions, to rally car racing, to caring.

    Modern part time-working - from tackling assumptions, to rally car racing, to caring.
    Jun 11 2024
    Is part-time working more accepted, nowadays? How have things changed? Why is it so important? Sharon Foxwell and Jo Holdom hold a discussion with Alex Kihurani. Jo and Sharon have job shared at One Voice Media, a PR and marketing agency in Devon for 12 years, where they are Associate Directors. Both are parents and Sharon’s youngest daughter has additional needs, due to a disability. Alex Kihurani is a senior manager in risk advisory and analytics at EY – and is also a successful rally car racing driver. Alex has worked part-time for years to balancing rallying and finance. And now he has another reason: his baby daughter, who hasn’t had an easy start to life.

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    24 mins
  • Inspiring bosses: what makes for great managers of part-time workers

    Inspiring bosses: what makes for great managers of part-time workers
    Jun 18 2024
    Kelly Keating, based in Bournemouth, is Head of People and Culture at Passenger Clothing Group, and worked at J.P. Morgan for many years prior, setting up their first job sharing platform. Andrew Eaton used to manage the shifts of 40 front of house staff, working all manner of shifts, before having to leave his job due to ill health. He is now launching a café/workspace for remote workers. Both have worked part-time, and both have been managed, while part-time. They discuss what it takes, to be an inspiring leader of part-time workers.

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    23 mins
  • Can you work part-time in the frontline? Demonstrating the art of the possible.

    Can you work part-time in the frontline? Demonstrating the art of the possible.
    Jun 25 2024
    Detective Constable Nisha Chandra of the London Metropolitan Police Force has recently returned to work after maternity leave. Julie Snell, a nurse at Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, chose to return part-time, after taking early retirement, for the ‘friends and the steps’. At either end of their career cycle, both share something unusual in common: they have unique working patterns in shift-based roles. How easy is it to work part-time or ‘differently’, when you are part a greater roster system, involving hundreds of people and a variety of patterns? Julie and Nisha discuss the nitty gritty of how they make it work, how things are changing in their sectors and their hopes for the future.

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    20 mins
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