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- Watson Wyatt offers sabbaticals.
- Watson Wyatt is continuing to offer senior consultants with a good service record the chance to negotiate career sabbaticals of up to a year.Investment practice leader Roger Urwin is setting an example by taking 12 weeks' holiday during the summer. Martin Knowles, head of investment manager...
- Research articles 2002-06-30
- Weighing Your Career-Break Options
- If you're thinking of taking a break from your job or career, you'd be well advised to do some advance planning. As with most things in life, you will get the most out of this endeavor if you give it careful consideration. While some career breaks are dictated by circumstance—such...
- Articles 2007-04-20
- Managing Middlescence
- The Idea in Brief ...
- Articles 2007-11-07
- Taking a Career Break
- Taking a Career BreakNumber of companies offering sabbaticals is growingAbout 20% of US large employers offer paid or unpaid sabbatical programs for their employees, and the popularity is increasing. Sabbaticals were named "one of the five new bold ideas for business excellence" in Harvard Business Review's 2005 "Annual List of...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-24
- EMPLOYEE PERKS: Best workplaces are revealed;MFS, Russell among financial services firms on the list.
- From midafternoon basketball games to paid sabbaticals, the 13 financial services firms on Fortune's list of the 100 best places to work offer perks rarely seen in other investment management companies. Among them: * MFS Investment Management, From midafternoon...
- Research articles 2000-02-07
- Chilling out; No longer confined to academics, extended leaves for study or travel help rejuvenate frazzled managers.(Sabbatical policies)(Brief Article)
- They used to apply mostly to professors taking six months off from teaching to research 15th-century Florentine art or newly discovered mathematical theorems. These days, sabbaticals are the latest workplace perk, usually designed to give burned-out They used to apply mostly to professors taking six...
- Research articles 2001-06-04
- Sabbatical programs becoming valuable way to retain employees.
- Letting employees go for a while can be a great way to keep them. While the number of companies that offer sabbaticals remains low, those that do offer time away from work are finding that employees return from such leave with a deeper commitment t...
- Research articles 2001-06-25
- Do We Undervalue Time Off?
- The New York Times Today has a less than cheerful article noting that, with economic pressures so intense, more and more of us are being asked to work harder for less. At the same time the business community can't stop talking about innovation and how to inspire it, nurture it...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Developing Your Employees
- There is a well-established case for developing your employees. It makes sense for the organization, it makes sense for the team, and it makes sense for the individuals concerned.From the organizational perspective, it is clearly beneficial to make the best of the talent held in your employee base; there is...
- Articles 2007-02-15
- Taking a Career Break
- It will probably not surprise you that there is a “workaholics” Web site. Given today’s corporate climate and the pace of change in the marketplace, people are working harder than ever before. In early 2007, MSNBC published an article about more and more workers “opting out of the rat race.”...
- Articles 2007-02-28
- Determining Your Value Inside Your Company
- "Just pay me what I'm really worth!" That, of course, is not what you would say to a current or prospective employer, but it is what everyone is thinking—especially when asked, "What are your salary expectations if we offer you this job?" New job or possible promotion, it's hard to...
- Articles 2007-10-04
- How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career
- The Idea in Brief Are you one of the growing number of people struggling to make mid-career changes? Searching for ten easy steps to professional reinvention? Or awaiting flashes of insight--while opportunities pass you by? Would...
- Articles 2008-02-13
- 6 Xerox Employees Granted Full-Time, Fully Paid Sabbaticals to Lend Business Skills to Boost Nonprofits
- STAMFORD, Conn. -- The St. Joseph's Neighborhood Center in Rochester, N.Y., relies on 160 volunteers to provide healthcare services that cover more than 3,000 uninsured or underinsured patients - or 18,000 visits - every year.
- Research articles 2007-01-22
- Trading Places: 8 Xerox People Swap Corporate World for Community Service in 2005 'Social Service Leave' Program
- STAMFORD, Conn. -- Eight Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) employees will transfer their strong business skills, problem-solving abilities and passion for service from inside the walls of Xerox out into the world of community nonprofit work as part of fully paid, 6- to 12-month sabbaticals taking place in 2005.
- Research articles 2005-01-31
- From New BMWs to Sabbaticals, CEOs at America's Fastest Growing Tech Firms are Finding New Ways to Hire and Retain Employees, Says Deloitte & Touche Survey
- SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 29, 1999--
- Research articles 1999-05-03
- From New BMWs to Sabbaticals, CEOs at America's Fastest Growing Tech Firms are Finding New Ways to Hire and Retain Employees, Says Deloitte & Touche Survey
- SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 29, 1999--
- Research articles 1999-04-29
- 8 Xerox Employees Receive Paid Leaves to Focus on Full-Time Community Service
- STAMFORD, Conn. -- Aiming to make a measurable impact on the places they work and live, eight Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) employees are taking sabbaticals to tackle full-time community service projects throughout 2006 - while their full pay continues from Xerox.
- Research articles 2006-01-23
- UPS sends executives on diversity sabbaticals: Indianapolis manager says working with less fortunate will help her relate better to employees
- Ginger Golobish had some idea what she was getting into as she climbed the corporate ladder at UPS--long days, countless meetings and mounting responsibilities aren't unheard of for a division manager. Ginger Golobish had some idea what she was getting into as she climbed...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- Eighty-six to the 9 to 5?
- Working from home, shift selection, flexible working hours and leave arrangements, extended career sabbaticals and job rotations will no longer be elusive concepts after 1 January, 2010. From this date the government's expanded statutory safety net of 10 National Employment Standards NES is set to take effect. Potentially, the most...
- Blog posts 2008-08-31
- C.I.A.'s 'Japan 2000' caper. (Central Intelligence Agency report)
- The Central Intelligence Agency colonized large parts of the Rochester Institute of Technology, according to newspaper accounts, getting in return for its consulting fees the R.I.T. president, Richard Rose (who takes his sabbaticals at C.I.A. headquarters in Langley, Virginia), the design department (which blueprinted new ways...
- Research articles 1991-09-30
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