From: dave@fly.srk.fer.hr   
      
   Mladen Gogala wrote:   
      
   >  How does one take a sabatical? Does the company pay him to go hiking   
   >  for a year?   
      
   Almost.   
      
   >  I am not sure that any company would be so generous toward anyone,   
   >  even toward a senior VP.   
      
   Once I had six months sabatical in my contract, just like everyone else.   
   In the good, old, dot.com times contract. :-)   
      
   IIRC, everyone got a right to six months sabatical after a certain (not   
   very high) number of years of employment in the company. But I don't   
   think the company lasted long enough for anyone to actually take the   
   sabatical.   
      
   But even outside of dot.com contracts, I don't think it's that hard to   
   get six months or so every 3-5 years. The idea behind sabatical is that   
   you're going to spend the time on something that you have a desire to   
   work on and which is more or less related to what the company does (so   
   only hiking probably isn't acceptable :-). And after you're back the   
   company might profit from your sabatical, if the stars get aligned   
   correctly.   
      
   The whole thing is something like a combination of bonus and R&D investment.   
      
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