July 5, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Intel, one of my contracts along the way, apparently had an amazing sabbatical program for their researchers and technicians. You couldn't get it until you'd been there a long while, however. It was a free sabbatical, however, from what was described to me (I never saw official documentation, I was a contractor). Most of their staff STILL went out of their way to go do doctorials, or recharge by feeding kids in a jungle, or whatever. Just those kind of folks, at least the ones I spoke with.
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July 5, 2011 at 5:24 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/5/2011)
. . . they sometimes are referred to as a leave of absence, unpaid, and no guarantees that your job will be there. To date, I've had 3 people I know take them and come back to work with no issues. . . .
I guess it all comes to how much your employer trusts your judgment. I have been around for 40+ years (check my avatar) and still doing leading edge technologies, so when I told my employer that I needed to learn Azure, they listened. Call it a "workforce stabilization bonus." 🙂
July 5, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Sorry, I forgot to say it explicitly, my "sabbatical" to learn Azure was fully paid.
(If I could forfeit the point I am getting for this clarification, I would. 🙂 )
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