job swap
Trading work positions
A job swap is an arrangement where two people temporarily exchange positions, either within the same organization or between different ones.
The swap lets participants experience different roles, departments, or work environments: The marketing director and sales manager did a job swap for a month.
Sometimes used for cross-training or to give employees fresh perspective.
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
- tradeExchange of commodities
- switchCircuit-breaking toggle device
- role reversalExchange of typical positions
- rotationTurning on an axis
career · position · transfer · role · shuffle · secondment · internal transfer · placement · workplace · colleague · experience · trial period · temporary · opportunity · shadow · department · skills · skill set
- exchangestrading, barter, bartering, exchange rate, stock exchange
- job changesreassignment, internal transfer, lateral move, posting, placement
- job transferrelocation, promotion, reassignment, lateral move, internal transfer
- work assignmentsassignment, posting, transfer, placement, deployment
employment permanence
job swaptermination
Act of ending something
resignation · career change · firing · quitting · layoff