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[quote=Anonymous]I think it would be easier to find people willing to sign up for either the 60 hr M-F position, or the weekend only position. But I think you will have a very hard time keeping a weekend only nanny happy enough to stick around long term.

On the one hand, if you can offer a stable, fair schedule to both nannies (the 3.5/3.5 set up sounds good, maybe one nanny does all day Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday morning, and the other nanny does Wednesday evening, Thursday all day, Friday, and Saturday?), then that might offer enough solid time off for them to not be too burnt out.

If you can get just the right pair, you might be able to get them to collaborate on the workload (for example, one chooses to do most of the laundry and vacuuming while the other might choose to do the grocery trips and prepare meals?). You might want to schedule them to overlap an hour or so on whatever day they split so they have a good chance to discuss details. For that sort of collaboration to work you need two great nannies and also nannies who feel they are being treated roughly equally by MB (hence why a 24-30 hr weekend nanny might not feel she is being treated as well as the 60 hr weekday nanny who gets OT pay and weekends off). Another perk to this scenario is that OT pay is minimized, while ensuring that both nannies are being paid for enough hours to get by (assuming 11-12 hour workdays and a fair wage).

I've always been one of the 50 hour weekday nannies myself, but the more I think about this scenario (42 hours per week but 3.5 day weekends every week), the better it sounds![/quote]

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