Why More Companies Are Providing Extended Sabbaticals In 2022
More and more people are getting into the conversations of burnout and the “Great Resignation” as it’s being called. With increased pressure in the workplace, people are realizing how exhausting the current system is and how it pushes people to their limits. Most people spend a considerable amount of their entire lives at work, and it is simply proving to be too much. People are quitting their jobs because of burnout. In such a time, as an employer, it can be very difficult to keep your workers happy. Even increased pay cannot in some cases help. In this era of burnout, some companies are experimenting with a sabbatical or an extended period of break where the employee can take some well-earned time off. The idea of a sabbatical is nothing new and has been around for a while. But it is only now that companies are beginning to take this thing seriously. Companies like Goldman Sachs Group Inc. provide sabbaticals of six weeks without any payment to employees that have worked with the