How to say "job-sharing" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- nounThe direct loanword for the arrangement in which two people divide a single job between them; use this when 'job-sharing' is meant in that strict sense rather than as a loose stand-in for work-sharing.
- nounThe general term for dividing work among workers; the strict job-sharing arrangement of two people splitting one position is understood as one type of this, so the word can cover that sense too.
- nounA shortened form of ワークシェアリング with the same range of meaning; like the full term it points mainly to work-sharing in general, and is only an indirect way to refer to job-sharing specifically.
All three loanwords are relatively uncommon: for two people splitting one job use 「ジョブシェアリング」, while 「ワークシェアリング」 and its short form 「ワークシェア」 chiefly denote the broader dividing of work among workers.
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