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[quote=Anonymous]NP. I’ve worked at high-intensity jobs my entire career and had three different sabbaticals at four different employers. I used each to travel extensively. The lengths varied but they ranged from four weeks to twelve weeks.

1. Corporate sabbaticals are usually not the same as academic sabbaticals so all the people talking about academic sabbaticals are giving incorrect advice. There is typically no expectation of job-related improvements.

2. You need to understand the dynamics of the company. In some companies it is expected, you can truly not check in at work, and there is a culture of supporting them because everyone knows they can get one if they work hard and long enough. In other companies it is seen as some test of whether you are actually valued or not, and whether you value the job or not.  I left one company about 18 months after my sabbatical (8 weeks) for a better job and someone told me “I knew you were going to leave when you took the full sabbatical. Everyone who takes the full sabbatical leaves within two years.” It wasn’t an incorrect observation.

3. In every company I know of, approval is discretionary. I’ve never seen it be automatic.

4. Paid versus unpaid and health insurance can vary. Usually there is some sort of grace period for health insurance with longer leaves. In all my cases, I kept paying for my part of health insurance even when I went into the unpaid part of my sabbatical. Two of my sabbaticals were paid, the other was partially paid.

5. Practically speaking, there can be a career risk. I have seen senior people re-orged because they were out and people realized that they functioned better with the person gone. You need to have clarity on your skill set and role, and company culture around the sabbatical.

6. He’s going to sit and play video games or be online the whole time if he is not planning anything. These take planning to do anything else. Yes, that would bother me too, but what you describe as far as him not doing anything to help with the kids is already terrible. [/quote]

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