I like this idea, but for me the challenge with being a part-time employee is that from my experience you become a part-time 'person' in management's eyes and t

I like this idea, but for me the challenge with being a part-time employee is that from my experience you become a part-time 'person' in management's eyes and that can be difficult in terms of promotion. With a previous manager when I worked as a Part-Time Engineer, I wrestled (internally and externally) with the fact that my contributions were viewed as less because of the total hours spent but the quality and complexity of the tasks I completed were no different to that of many of my peers that were promoted before I managed to receive the same recognition. Going the other way (excess hours), in many teams that I have worked, I have observed that those with more outside commitments or interests seem to do less well in a team than those that choose to spend their time on work tasks outside of normal office hours no matter how effective/brilliant/capable they are. I've not made up my mind if this is a small or massive problem. I guess if you REALLY want a promotion you will be prepared to put the hours in, but what about if you can't do this due to your given situation? (eg: a single parent?) What about burn out? What about people who are succeeding with dumb work practices? Part-timing on a contract type position rather than salary would be a pretty good fit in my mind and I have seen this work well based on the huge grand total of two examples I have seen in 10 years of work.