"Some companies offer unpaid sabbatical for people wanting to take career breaks; this is a growing trend in the United Kingdom, with 20% of companies having a career break policy, and a further 10% considering introducing one."
Backs me up too :)
Certainly at $large_corp I worked at before (in London) this was increasingly the case, with people taking six months to a year just to explore the world as a career break. I don't know if that counts as focussing on a side project.
Perhaps the term sabbatical is slowly changing from 'time an academic takes out to write a book' to 'I don't want to work my whole life away so I'm taking extended time off'.
Backs me up too :)
Certainly at $large_corp I worked at before (in London) this was increasingly the case, with people taking six months to a year just to explore the world as a career break. I don't know if that counts as focussing on a side project.
Perhaps the term sabbatical is slowly changing from 'time an academic takes out to write a book' to 'I don't want to work my whole life away so I'm taking extended time off'.