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Archives for June, 2009
Break for a Business Owner
For Michelle and Jon Richard, 2008 saw the culmination of a long-time goal. The couple spent seven months circling the globe, stopping at 22 countries along the way. They swam with manta rays in Australia, toured Vietnam on motorbike, and took a Thai cooking class in Chiang Mai.
Just a few short years after establishing Coalesce, [...]
Career Strategist Renee Trudeau on Personal Retreat Sabbaticals
Renee Trudeau is a big believer in “hitting the pause button.” A career and life balance coach, owner of Career Strategists and author of The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal , Trudeau and her team work with mid- to senior-level professionals to help them integrate who they are with what they do. And, she says, people [...]
Reports on Sabbaticals: Work+Life Fit's survey, leaving law for Uganda, & an Intel author
Still think flexibility offerings like sabbaticals don’t have a place in an economic downturn? Think again.
As job loss numbers continue to increase, 94% of employees say they’re willing to change their schedule or cut their salary to avoid layoffs – with 31% saying they would take an unpaid sabbatical. That’s according to the 2009 Annual [...]