Sabbaticals for everyone? Not quite, but there's plenty of good
reason to extend them beyond academia and into selected sectors of
the world outside. Lawyer and teacher Daniel C. Kramer shows from
his own meticulous research and others' that sabbatical programs
that now exist have produced greater benefits than costs, and that
they could be spread to most of the American work force with a
simple amendment to the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. They
must be conceived and administrated commonsensically, of course,
and there will always be places where they won't work. But there's
enough evidence that they will work--primarily in organizations of
more than 50 people--and in the public and private sectors both. A
challenging, thought-provoking book for policy- and executive
decision-makers throughout the country, and new fuel for debate
within the academic community as well.
Kramer summarizes just about all of the existing research on the
topic and finds that the benefits of sabbaticals to those who have
taken them far exceed whatever disruptions they may have caused to
their organizations. He examines for-profit companies, high tech as
well as the more traditional ones, and not-for-profit and
governmental organizations too. He looks at elementary and
secondary schools, medical settings, and churches and reports on
the personal experiences of many who have taken them, summarized
from other books and articles as well as from what was disclosed to
him personally in the course of his own conversations with more
than 100 people in various work settings. Sabbatical grantees
travel, spend more time with their children, or just relax--and
most of them return to their desks more enthusiastic about their
work and better able to do it than before they left. From the
organization's viewpoint, Kramer finds that sabbaticals are not as
costly as many think, nor do they impede the work flow as some
fear--not if they are administrated with ordinary understanding of
the basic principles he carefully elucidates. He concludes with a
discussion of how such programs could easily be mandated into law,
and gives a final, persuasive argument why he thinks they should
be.
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