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Midcareer Breaks Seen as "Sleeping Giant"
Yesterday’s New York Times had an article - “Those ‘Gap Years’ Aren’t Just for Students” - addressing the growth in sabbaticals both as a midcareer boost and a “more creative long-term way [for businesses] to weather the economic downturn than layoffs”.
Let's Learn From the Brits, Shall We?
Yesterday’s Sunday Mirror, a UK newspaper, noted that more people than ever are taking sabbaticals, with nine in 10 “gap-year” (what the Brits call a sabbatical) travellers now over 30. The research was provided by American Express Insurance Services, a company that offers sabbaticals for its employees.
The sabbatical mindset is not foreign in the UK, [...]