There is an urgent need for more high-quality part-time jobs, both to get more people into work and to improve worker wellbeing and job performance. Too often, part-time opportunities are badly designed or career-limiting. What would it take to get employers to create more and better part-time jobs?

Charlotte Gascoigne presents the business case evidence for part-time working and argues for a radical rethink of how jobs are designed. More than 40 case studies across a range of occupations demonstrate how managers who take a collaborative approach to work design can create more effective and productive part-time jobs.

Aimed at employers, HR professionals and policy makers, this book calls on employers and governments to bring part-time work into the mainstream, for the benefit of workers, organizations and the economy.