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A Sabbatical Sparks Loyalty
Posted on July 24, 2020
by
Jaime Leick
Christi Dixon would be lying if she didn’t admit her company’s sabbatical program has kept her on the job. A vice president at Standing Partnership in St. Louis, Dixon has been recruited by headhunters and business acquaintances, but never gave the offers real consideration.
Standing Partnership’s 24 staff members are eligible for a two month paid [...]
A Sabbatical in Myanmar
Posted on May 15, 2020
by
Elizabeth Pagano
Billie Madha and her mother left Myanmar (then Burma) in 1976, when Billie was 15. They thought they’d never see their family again. And it was a big family. Billie’s mother was one of 18 children.
More than 20 years later, on her first sabbatical with Arrow Electronics, Billie got to take her mother back to [...]