University, and especially grad school, is really an amazing environment. Because of these tools and resources and because everyone involved has learning as its prime drive.
We should normalize sabaticals were you go back to university for a summer or what not.
Companies just don't want to give people long stretches of time off of course.
However, I suspect that another important dynamic is that it's essentially impossible at a small firm because there aren't a lot of people to cover the workload. Fast forward and you now have 5,000 people some reasonable portion having been there for 5+ years. OK, how do you initiate a sabbatical program that doesn't lead to a ton of people taking time off or screwing the long-term employees?
We should normalize sabaticals were you go back to university for a summer or what not.