As companies grapple with strained budgets, tight credit, waning demand for products, and layoffs, flexible arrangements like sabbaticals are a way to keep morale high. And they don’t have to cost much.
Employees worried about their jobs tend to be reluctant to seek out such arrangements, said Ellen Galinsky of the Family Work Institute, in a recent Reuters article.
“What I’m hearing is that people are more afraid to ask for it,” she said. “I hear from companies, even those who want to promote flexibility, the employees are a little bit more nervous about it.”
Yet this may be the best time to ask. In bad economic times, companies are forced to get creative when trying to keep morale high.
A self-funded sabbatical program costs the company little to nothing and allows employees to have time to do things that are important to them, whether professional or personal in nature.
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