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A long term sub. Hopefully she's good—she's a former student!
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When I had an office job, they hired a temp. When I decided not to return, they hired her on fully.
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We switch roles fairly often (every 2-5 years), so someone takes over my role and I come back to a new one!! I really like the system. Clean break from work (nothing piles up) and fresh start upon return.
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I think some of the major stuff my coworker will watch, but likely nothing will happen until I come back. We are an extremely small team, but I'm the only one in my role (though we do all pitch in in all areas)
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For my first LO, I had just moved into a role for a department that didn't have anyone in that role anyway, so they just carried on without me and my direct reports reported to my boss. I ended up not going back, and they've had to fill the position at least 3 times in the 1.5 years since I left.
For this one, my coworkers and boss will split the critical items, but there probably isn't much that can't just wait until I'm back.
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For LO#1, I had a few people in my department take on different aspects of my work. We each had babies within a few years of each other and were covering for each other during those times. While everyone was happy that I was back, they definitely didn't complain about taking my work since I took on their work while they were out. It was very much a team effort.
This time around, my department is structured a bit differently, and I'm due within a day of one of my coworkers who covered for me last time. So we're both going out at the same time. Our boss is going to take on most of our work, and she has a direct report that will take on a lot. Again, I don't think anyone is complaining about us being out at all...we work for a pretty flexible department in our company!
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A substitute teacher
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I work for a small company, and we were slow when I was out so it just went to my coworker and my boss.
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2-3 of my team members will share the workload. But my bosses will likely also just cut back a bit on business and not do any huge projects while I'm out.
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Last time, no one. It just waited for me to get back. Next time, I plan to take more time so I'm not sure. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
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I work in an agency-type environment, so my project managers just resourced appropriately so that there was no work to cover--I finished my currents projects before LO arrived, and helped out as-needed but didn't take huge roles in anything else that would need to continue after I went out. It was awesome, because nothing really piled up while I was gone. (I'm not in a leadership position, which is partially why that's the case. Would be different if I was a Manager/Director.)
In my previous job (where I always assumed I'd take maternity leave--I started my current job while 10 weeks pregnant) I was a one-woman team at a nonprofit. Coming back to that after maternity leave would have been BRUTAL.
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Whenever anyone is out, the workload just gets redistributed. It's a challenge for all involved.
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It's bad... With LO1, my MD and triage nurse just had to pick up my work... See more patients, field more calls, write the chemo orders etc. It seemed brutal. My doctor basically didn't do any research during those 12 weeks. And patients definitely had worse care. Now that I am part time, I have another NP with which I job share. So I think she will take the brunt of it when I'm out w LO2 this winter. (I'm an oncology NP at a big academic institution)
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