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A '''sabbatical''' (from the [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: {{lang|he|שַׁבָּת}} {{transl|he|Šabat}} (i.e., [[Biblical Sabbath|Sabbath]]); in [[Latin language|Latin]] {{lang|la|sabbaticus}}; [[Greek language|Greek]]: {{lang|grc|sabbatikos}} {{transl|grc|σαββατικός}}) is a rest or break from work.
A '''sabbatical''' (from the [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]: {{lang|he|שַׁבָּת}} {{transl|he|Šabat}} (i.e., [[Biblical Sabbath|Sabbath]]); in [[Latin language|Latin]] {{lang|la|sabbaticus}}; [[Greek language|Greek]]: {{lang|grc|sabbatikos}} {{transl|grc|σαββατικός}}) is a rest or break from work; “an extended period of time intentionally spent on something that’s not your routine job.”<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Schabram |first=Kira |last2=Bloom |first2=Matt |last3=Didonna |first3=Dj |date=2022-11-04 |title=Recover, Explore, Practice: The Transformative Potential of Sabbaticals |url=http://journals.aom.org/doi/full/10.5465/amd.2021.0100 |journal=Academy of Management Discoveries |language=en |pages=amd.2021.0100 |doi=10.5465/amd.2021.0100 |issn=2168-1007}}</ref>


The concept of the sabbatical is based on the Biblical practice of ''[[shmita]]'' (sabbatical year), which is related to agriculture. According to {{bible verse||Leviticus|25}}, Jews in the [[Land of Israel]] must take a year-long break from working the fields every seven years.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=Esias E. |title=The Jubilee in Leviticus 25: A Theological Ethical Interpretation from a South African Perspective |date=2005 |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster |isbn=978-3-8258-8805-3 |page=236 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7v-EBTYrWWwC }}</ref> Starting with [[Harvard University]] in 1880, many universities and other institutional employers of scientists, physicians, and academics offer the opportunity to qualify for paid sabbatical as an employee benefit, called ''sabbatical leave''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Else |first1=Holly |title=Sabbaticals: no longer so open-ended or available? |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/sabbaticals-no-longer-so-open-ended-or-available/2019616.article |access-date=26 January 2022 |work=Times Higher Education (THE) |date=16 April 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Eells |first=Walter C. |date=September 1962 |title=The Origin and Early History of Sabbatical Leave |journal=Bulletin, American Association of University Professors |volume=48 |issue=3 |pages=253–256 |doi=10.2307/40222893 |jstor=40222893}}</ref> Early academic sabbatical policies were designed to aid their faculty in resting and recovering, but were also provided in order to facilitate "advancements in knowledge in vogue elsewhere...an intellectual and practical necessity" for both the professors and university education more broadly.<ref>{{cite web |last=Eliot |first=Charles |date=31 May 1880 |title=Harvard University Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer |url=https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:427018307$1i |url-status=live |access-date=24 June 2022 |website=Harvard University Annual Reports 1879-1880}}</ref> Present day academic sabbaticals typically excuse the grantee from day to day teaching and departmental duties, though progress on research is expected to continue, if not increase, while away. Academic sabbaticals come in the form of either semester-long or full-academic year terms.
The concept of the sabbatical is based on the Biblical practice of ''[[shmita]]'' (sabbatical year), which is related to agriculture. According to {{bible verse||Leviticus|25}}, Jews in the [[Land of Israel]] must take a year-long break from working the fields every seven years.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Meyer |first1=Esias E. |title=The Jubilee in Leviticus 25: A Theological Ethical Interpretation from a South African Perspective |date=2005 |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster |isbn=978-3-8258-8805-3 |page=236 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7v-EBTYrWWwC }}</ref> Starting with [[Harvard University]] in 1880, many universities and other institutional employers of scientists, physicians, and academics offer the opportunity to qualify for paid sabbatical as an employee benefit, called ''sabbatical leave''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Else |first1=Holly |title=Sabbaticals: no longer so open-ended or available? |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/sabbaticals-no-longer-so-open-ended-or-available/2019616.article |access-date=26 January 2022 |work=Times Higher Education (THE) |date=16 April 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Eells |first=Walter C. |date=September 1962 |title=The Origin and Early History of Sabbatical Leave |journal=Bulletin, American Association of University Professors |volume=48 |issue=3 |pages=253–256 |doi=10.2307/40222893 |jstor=40222893}}</ref> Early academic sabbatical policies were designed to aid their faculty in resting and recovering, but were also provided in order to facilitate "advancements in knowledge in vogue elsewhere...an intellectual and practical necessity" for both the professors and university education more broadly.<ref>{{cite web |last=Eliot |first=Charles |date=31 May 1880 |title=Harvard University Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer |url=https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:427018307$1i |url-status=live |access-date=24 June 2022 |website=Harvard University Annual Reports 1879-1880}}</ref> Present day academic sabbaticals typically excuse the grantee from day to day teaching and departmental duties, though progress on research is expected to continue, if not increase, while away. Academic sabbaticals come in the form of either semester-long or full-academic year terms.


A ''sabbatical'' has also come to mean a lengthy, intentional break from a career. The popularity of sabbaticals for non-academics has increased in the 21st century: 17% of companies offered some sort of sabbatical policy to their employees in 2017, according to a survey by the Society For Human Resource Management.<ref>{{cite web |date=February 2017 |title=2017 Employee Benefits |url=https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/trends-and-forecasting/research-and-surveys/Documents/2017%20Employee%20Benefits%20Report.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=24 June 2022 |website=Society For Human Resource Management}}</ref> There are very few norms and expectations for non-academic, or professional, sabbaticals. They can be paid or unpaid, affiliated with one's employer or self-directed, and have a variety of durations, from several weeks to over a year.
A ''sabbatical'' has also come to mean a lengthy, intentional break from a career for non-academic professionals as well. There are very few norms and expectations for non-academic, or professional, sabbaticals. They can be paid or unpaid, affiliated with one's employer or self-directed, and have a variety of durations, from several weeks to over a year.

A 2022 study of working professionals on extended leave identified three types of sabbaticals<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schabram |first=Kira |last2=Bloom |first2=Matt |last3=DiDonna |first3=D. J. |date=2023-02-22 |title=Research: The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals |work=Harvard Business Review |url=https://hbr.org/2023/02/research-the-transformative-power-of-sabbaticals |access-date=2023-03-31 |issn=0017-8012}}</ref>:

* Working Holidays - characterized by "intense periods of work and dedicated breaks to rest and rekindle long-neglected relationships."
* Free Dives - during which participants "leaped out of work and dove straight into intense exploration."
* Quests - which found people "pushing their personal limits to discover themselves."

The popularity of sabbaticals for non-academics has increased in the 21st century: 17% of companies offered some sort of sabbatical policy to their employees in 2017, according to a survey by the Society For Human Resource Management.<ref>{{cite web |date=February 2017 |title=2017 Employee Benefits |url=https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/trends-and-forecasting/research-and-surveys/Documents/2017%20Employee%20Benefits%20Report.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=24 June 2022 |website=Society For Human Resource Management}}</ref>

Sabbaticals are also becoming more common in the medical profession, and are being used in intense subfields such as emergency medicine to reduce physician burnout.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Throop |first=John |last2=Powell |first2=Don |last3=Slywka |first3=Bradley |date=2022-11-16 |title=A Successful Sabbatical Program to Reduce Burnout in Emergency Medicine Physicians |url=http://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/CAT.22.0209 |journal=NEJM Catalyst |language=en |volume=3 |issue=12 |doi=10.1056/CAT.22.0209 |issn=2642-0007}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 16:07, 31 March 2023

This article is about the leave from work. For the Torah (Biblical) concept, see shmita. For the television show, see Sabbatical (TV series).

A sabbatical (from the Hebrew: שַׁבָּת Šabat (i.e., Sabbath); in Latin sabbaticus; Greek: sabbatikos σαββατικός) is a rest or break from work; “an extended period of time intentionally spent on something that’s not your routine job.”[1]

The concept of the sabbatical is based on the Biblical practice of shmita (sabbatical year), which is related to agriculture. According to Leviticus 25, Jews in the Land of Israel must take a year-long break from working the fields every seven years.[2] Starting with Harvard University in 1880, many universities and other institutional employers of scientists, physicians, and academics offer the opportunity to qualify for paid sabbatical as an employee benefit, called sabbatical leave.[3][4] Early academic sabbatical policies were designed to aid their faculty in resting and recovering, but were also provided in order to facilitate "advancements in knowledge in vogue elsewhere...an intellectual and practical necessity" for both the professors and university education more broadly.[5] Present day academic sabbaticals typically excuse the grantee from day to day teaching and departmental duties, though progress on research is expected to continue, if not increase, while away. Academic sabbaticals come in the form of either semester-long or full-academic year terms.

A sabbatical has also come to mean a lengthy, intentional break from a career for non-academic professionals as well. There are very few norms and expectations for non-academic, or professional, sabbaticals. They can be paid or unpaid, affiliated with one's employer or self-directed, and have a variety of durations, from several weeks to over a year.

A 2022 study of working professionals on extended leave identified three types of sabbaticals[6]:

  • Working Holidays - characterized by "intense periods of work and dedicated breaks to rest and rekindle long-neglected relationships."
  • Free Dives - during which participants "leaped out of work and dove straight into intense exploration."
  • Quests - which found people "pushing their personal limits to discover themselves."

The popularity of sabbaticals for non-academics has increased in the 21st century: 17% of companies offered some sort of sabbatical policy to their employees in 2017, according to a survey by the Society For Human Resource Management.[7]

Sabbaticals are also becoming more common in the medical profession, and are being used in intense subfields such as emergency medicine to reduce physician burnout.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ Schabram, Kira; Bloom, Matt; Didonna, Dj (4 November 2022). "Recover, Explore, Practice: The Transformative Potential of Sabbaticals". Academy of Management Discoveries: amd.2021.0100. doi:10.5465/amd.2021.0100. ISSN 2168-1007.
  2. ^ Meyer, Esias E. (2005). The Jubilee in Leviticus 25: A Theological Ethical Interpretation from a South African Perspective. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 236. ISBN 978-3-8258-8805-3.
  3. ^ Else, Holly (16 April 2015). "Sabbaticals: no longer so open-ended or available?". Times Higher Education (THE). Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  4. ^ Eells, Walter C. (September 1962). "The Origin and Early History of Sabbatical Leave". Bulletin, American Association of University Professors. 48 (3): 253–256. doi:10.2307/40222893. JSTOR 40222893.
  5. ^ Eliot, Charles (31 May 1880). "Harvard University Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer". Harvard University Annual Reports 1879-1880. Retrieved 24 June 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Schabram, Kira; Bloom, Matt; DiDonna, D. J. (22 February 2023). "Research: The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals". Harvard Business Review. ISSN 0017-8012. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  7. ^ "2017 Employee Benefits" (PDF). Society For Human Resource Management. February 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Throop, John; Powell, Don; Slywka, Bradley (16 November 2022). "A Successful Sabbatical Program to Reduce Burnout in Emergency Medicine Physicians". NEJM Catalyst. 3 (12). doi:10.1056/CAT.22.0209. ISSN 2642-0007.

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