No, it's nothing to do with professionalism, it's a matter of having to pass on work that must continue when your not there. Maybe you only work Mon & Tue and s

No, it's nothing to do with professionalism, it's a matter of having to pass on work that must continue when your not there. Maybe you only work Mon & Tue and someone else needs to work on the same task all week, you have to pass it to them tues eve and pick it up mon morning again, both of which take time. Now the obvious answer is to the structure the work so that isn't required; but not all companies are willing or able to do that. I've had to leave tasks with people knowing they would be by themselves for several days, and hoping they'd have done it right when I got back. Sometimes they did, sometimes they didn't. I was half in charge of someone else while part-time - not the best situation. A badly organised company. I'm sympathetic to your plight, as said elsewhere I used to do part time (now I'm proper freelance) but in badly organised teams this can be a problem.