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Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For: 21 Offer Fully-Paid Sabbaticals

Posted on March 10, 2011 by
Elizabeth Pagano

The number of companies on Fortune’s coveted “Best Companies to Work For” list that offer fully-paid sabbaticals keeps inching up. This year, 21 companies on the list offer sabbaticals, up from 19 in 2010 and 15 in 2009. Are you seeing a trend?

In less than two weeks, the yourSABBATICAL team will be in Denver for the Great Place to Work Institute’s annual conference. Companies that attend the conference are usually trying to get on (or stay on) the Fortune list and want to learn about best practices in “great places to work.” Whether a company has a sabbatical program is a factor in the application process for the annual “best employer” list.

Here are the 2011 winners with fully-paid sabbaticals, with their Fortune rank in parentheses:

  • Boston Consulting Group (2)
  • Recreational Equipment (9)
  • DreamWorks Animation SKG (10)
  • Alston & Bird (13)
  • Robert W. Baird & Co. (14)
  • Container Store (21)
  • DPR Construction (22)
  • Plante & Moran (26)
  • QuikTrip (34)
  • Genentech (35)
  • American Express (49)
  • Baker Donelson (50)
  • Intel (51)
  • Perkins Coie (55)
  • General Mills (58)
  • Adobe Systems (65)
  • Microsoft (72)
  • St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (80)
  • Kimpton Hotels (83)
  • Men’s Wearhouse (87)
  • Morningstar (95)

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About Elizabeth Pagano

Founding Partner, yourSABBATICAL.com.

Elizabeth consults with organizations on leadership/talent development. She is co-author of THE TRANSPARENCY EDGE: How Credibility Can Make or Break You in Business (McGraw-Hill), which has been translated into four languages and is now in paperback. A former business journalist, articles by and about her have appeared in a wide array of business publications, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, CNN International, Outside Magazine, Oprah.com, Journal of Accountancy, CBS News, Web CPA, Business to Business, Talent Management, Employee Benefit News, Manage Smarter, and Canada’s Globe and Mail. You can find her book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Transparency-Edge-Elizabeth-Pagano/dp/0071458840/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1291230117&sr=8-1.

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After 9/11, Elizabeth sailed with her mother on their family's 43-foot Beneteau, "Revival". To read more about their adventure at sea, go to http://yoursabbatical.com/about/team/pagano-sailing-sabbatical/. Since their sailing sabbatical, Elizabeth and her mother have been working tirelessly to ensure that every career path includes a sabbatical or two.

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3 Responses (add yours)

  1. Sean says

    Cool.

    I’d be super interested in what a fully paid Sabbatical means.

    3 weeks paid with all benefits/bonuses? or 1 year? Somewhere in between?

    On May 19, 2011 @ 9:13 pm.
  2. Elizabeth Pagano says

    Hi, Sean. Fully paid means salary and benefits remain for the period of the sabbatical. For lengths of sabbaticals, see our “Workplaces for Sabbaticals” list at http://yoursabbatical.com/learn/workplaces-for-sabbaticals/.

    On May 19, 2011 @ 9:27 pm.


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