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Yes, We Really Are That Cool

By: Mistie Thompson | 02/14/2008

Standing's "outstanding" (sorry, couldn't resist!) sabbatical policy was just featured in this St. Louis Post-Dispatch article, along with some - ahem - interesting opinions on the concept of corporate sabbaticals by experts from the Society for Human Resource Management. With all due respect to the HR people, I think in this case they're missing the point. Are there short-term costs involved with giving sabbaticals? Sure. But, smart companies - Google comes to mind - know that short-term investments in people means long-term loyalty, increased productivity and heightened creativity.

And what does that translate into? For Google, domination in its industry. For companies like Standing, happy employees (like my recent sabbatical-taking colleague Julie blogged about) mean happy clients - and happy clients means a great reputation that brings in more clients. Which means? Yep, that's right - profits. Which makes everyone happy.

See, smart business is also fun business...and we're having a lot of fun at Standing! How about you? Are you having fun at your business these days?

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