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Recession Outcome: An Acquired Taste for Free Time?

While some organizations excitedly complete the final design of their first Sabbatical Program, McDonald’s could literally yawn.  Their sabbatical program is more than 40 years old.

While there is nothing quite like debriefing with a person who’s just returned from their first career break imagine how intrigued we are to interview employees of two other firms with long-standing sabbatical programs - Intel and Arrow Electronics-  who return from their 3rd, 4th or 5th sabbaticals? What do they think about all that time away from their career - over and over again?

Here’s the scoop:  you can get mightily attached to a break away from your job. That first sabbatical only whets one’s appetite for the next one….and the one after that.

Author Shaila Dewan, in Sunday’s NYTimes worries about workaholics - the ones that don’t have the option of working more since they are laid off and the ones that are being forced into reduced hours.  Will they love that free time or hate it?  Might they cozy up to time for just them and wonder why they did without? Will they learn to love time away from the job?

All this drives the bigger questions: What will America look like when the economic crisis is over?  Will we be content to live in small houses and spend more responsibly?  Might we flip the work-life balance to LIFE-WORK balance and take back our time?

It’s just so darn intriguing to me.  You?

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