Are tandems just as productive as full-time employees, or perhaps even more productive? To answer this question, we have conducted the largest and most comprehensive scientific survey on tandem productivity to date, in cooperation with Heilbronn University (HHN) and TWISE. The most important result: tandems are more productive than full-time individuals. So job sharing pays off for companies. Tandems are not too expensive:-)
And here is an overview of our scientific survey:
The methodology.
Online survey with part 1: tandem characteristics (length of service, career level, gender distribution, etc.), part 2: productivity drivers (agility, resilience, innovation, collaboration, range of skills, expertise, availability/accessibility, quality of decisions and work results, etc.)
50 executives were interviewed, 50% men and 50% women, > 90% of whom were division and department heads from 11 different departments, the majority of whom had several years of experience in managing tandems and individual full-time employees.
Only job-sharing tandems that collaborate to a high degree rather than splitting one role into two separate areas of responsibility were considered.
The results at a glance:
If that's not convincing!
You can find a summary of the results here:
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