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{{Short description|Rest from work for specified period of months or years}}{{About|the leave from work|the Torah (Biblical) concept|shmita}}{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}{{labor|sp=us}}A sabbatical (from the Hebrew: {{transliteration|he|Šabat}} (i.e., Sabbath); in Latin ; Greek: {{transliteration|grc|σαββατικός}}) is a rest or break from work; "an extended period of time intentionally spent on something that’s not your routine job".JOURNAL, Schabram, Kira, Bloom, Matt, Didonna, Dj, 2022-11-04, Recover, Explore, Practice: The Transformative Potential of Sabbaticals,weblink Academy of Management Discoveries, en, amd.2021.0100, 10.5465/amd.2021.0100, 253358782, 2168-1007, 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.BOOK, Meyer, Esias E., The Jubilee in Leviticus 25: A Theological Ethical Interpretation from a South African Perspective, 2005, LIT Verlag Münster, 978-3-8258-8805-3, 236,weblink 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.NEWS, Else, Holly, Sabbaticals: no longer so open-ended or available?,weblink 26 January 2022, Times Higher Education (THE), 16 April 2015, JOURNAL, Eells, Walter C., September 1962, The Origin and Early History of Sabbatical Leave, Bulletin, American Association of University Professors, 48, 3, 253–256, 10.2307/40222893, 40222893, 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.WEB, Eliot, Charles, 31 May 1880, Harvard University Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer,weblink$1i, 24 June 2022, Harvard University Annual Reports 1879-1880, 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:NEWS, Schabram, Kira, Bloom, Matt, DiDonna, D. J., 2023-02-22, Research: The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals, Harvard Business Review,weblink 2023-03-31, 0017-8012,

• 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.WEB, February 2017, 2017 Employee Benefits,weblink 24 June 2022, Society For Human Resource Management, 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.JOURNAL, Throop, John, Powell, Don, Slywka, Bradley, 2022-11-16, A Successful Sabbatical Program to Reduce Burnout in Emergency Medicine Physicians,weblink NEJM Catalyst, en, 3, 12, 10.1056/CAT.22.0209, 253621795, 2642-0007,

See also

• Sabbatical officer
• Career break
• Gap year
• Long service leave
• Otium

References

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Further reading

• JOURNAL, Kimball, Bruce A., July–August 1978, The Origin of the Sabbath and Its Legacy to the Modern Sabbatical, The Journal of Higher Education, 49, 4, 303–315, 10.2307/1979188, 1979188,
• BOOK, Zahorski, Kenneth J., 1994, The Sabbatical Mentor: A Practical Guide to Successful Sabbaticals,weblink registration, Bolton, Mass., Anker Publishing, 9781882982004, 31393781,
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• www.thesabbaticalproject.org
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External links

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