Sabbaticals can enhance one’s productivity, creativity and value in the job market, says Encore.org member Catherine A. Allen, who took a sabbatical herself after a decade leading BITS, the technology strategy consortium of the Financial Services Roundtable.
With three co-authors, Allen now is writing a book, Reboot Your Life: How Taking Time Off From Work Will Enhance Your Personal and Professional Life, to be published this year.
Allen and her co-authors (who call themselves the “Sabbatical Sisters”) conducted more than 100 interviews with men and women who had taken sabbaticals at different stages of their careers and found that the breaks had helped, rather than hurt, their career prospects.
Sabbaticals can enhance one’s productivity, creativity and value in the job market, says Encore.org member Catherine A. Allen, who took a sabbatical herself after a decade leading BITS, the technology strategy consortium of the Financial Services Roundtable.
With three co-authors, Allen now is writing a book, Reboot Your Life: How Taking Time Off From Work Will Enhance Your Personal and Professional Life, to be published this year.
Allen and her co-authors (who call themselves the “Sabbatical Sisters”) conducted more than 100 interviews with men and women who had taken sabbaticals at different stages of their careers and found that the breaks had helped, rather than hurt, their career prospects.
David Bank
Editor, Encore.org