Katie Bindley
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187 appearances
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first heard Sep 2021
last heard Jan 2022
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But each company tends to require a certain number of years off before you are eligible to take this extended time off.
Yes, this is interesting.
I spoke with a CEO of a marketing agency in Chicago, and she said, you know, just she was seeing her employees get burned out.
She was, you know, seeing the effects of the pandemic, really.
And so she started in she also said that she was noticing that people weren't really taking
the vacation time.
They were given a good amount of leave, but she wasn't seeing people actually take the time off.
So she decided this past fall to start offering three weeks of paid time off for a sabbatical in addition to vacation time.
And people are eligible for that after three years with the company.
And she views it as a way to both attract new talent and also hang on to the existing talent that she has.
there's this idea among some people who are really hard workers that, you know, you should always be kind of pushing through.
And there's this organization called The Sabbatical Project that actually did interviews with 50 people who'd taken sabbaticals.
And they found that there was a common theme of what they called functional workaholism, which is, you know, people just obviously working way, way, way too much.
And for those people,
Two-thirds of them said that it was a negative event, such as like a long relationship ending or the death of a family member or needing to take care of someone that was sick that finally prompted them to take their long break.
So they, in a lot of cases, needed like a negative catalyst to prompt them to take the sabbatical.
Yeah, so one theme that came up a bunch in the reporting was this idea of planning ahead to make sure that the employee who does have to help out a bunch doesn't get overburdened.
So an employee really is supposed to go to their manager, I think, a few months in advance to talk about when would be the ideal time for me to take this break.
evaluating, okay, what projects can be put on hold maybe until the person comes back.
And then really companies just need to focus on distributing the work in a way that's fair and where you don't want to see one person have to pick up so much slack.
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