More and more organisations in Britain and around the world are actively encouraging their employees to take a Gap Year for Grown Ups, Sabbatical, or Career Break all of which are the same thing. A combination of the recent recession and organisations trying to keep the best staff has shown that a 1 or 2 week holiday does not compare with a much larger break.

Recently one of the directors of Bain announced that they were actively encouraging sabbaticals for their staff. The view is that the employees come back ‘refreshed with a new energy and passion’ and that it is the best way to ‘retain the best staff’. The norm of fly and flop holidays is not a satisfying challenge.

KPMG have also announced there support of such sabbaticals recently as it is a way for them to avoid redundancies during economic recovery. KPMG offer 30% pay and 6 months off.

Gap Year for grown ups is part of what we offer at Dive The Gap. The full Travel Tree Sebbaticals was a Radio 4 programme on Spring Bank Holiday yesterday. You can hear it on BBC Iplayer here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sj6b1/Travellers_Tree_Series_6_Senior_Sabbaticals/