Company-wide Sabbaticals

We were thrilled to discover this article on Inc.com by Will Yankowicz, quoting an article by Simon Cohen from Harvard Business Review  about business leaders putting their whole company on sabbatical! Cohen put his company Global Tolerance on a sabbatical for a year,...

Sabbatical numbers higher in Canada

We were fascinated by a detail in this article in Yahoo! Finance Canada about the benefits of sabbaticals.  Following the story of an employee of Canadian electric utility B.C. Hydro who offers its employees “self-funded leave lasting from six months to one...

Less Vacation than a Medieval Peasant?

We were shocked by this article on Reuters about why a medieval peasant had many more days off work a year (around 215) than the modern American worker does today (around 8!) As we here at Reboot Partners are well aware, taking time off is key to both an individual...