Sharers Must Marry Their Needs

After years of struggling with trying to be mother and executive, hoping to hang on to a career in finance while also trying to hang on to sanity, [Martha] Mensch and [Andrea] Pesta heard a suggestion from their boss that it was time for them to put their heads and lives together and share one job at the firm. At that time, it was an idea that had never been tried before at Booz, particularly at such a high level of the company.
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Pesta and Mensch were on the first edges of job sharing. They are also among the few who have succeeded at a job share at such a high level in an organization. But it has worked. The two have shared four jobs now and have even been promoted together. The concept of job sharing is still not incredibly popular with most companies. But as workers attempt to come up with alternatives to an 80-hour workweek, and as baby boomer retirements threaten companies with a major loss of workers, the cliche “work-life balance” is getting a second look. Postings asking for a job-share partner are becoming more common on company bulletin boards, among listings on job Web sites and, naturally, at working women’s organizations.
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But the idea of two brains for one job is still a foreign concept to many employers and employees.

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