What Bank of America learned about employee happiness when it offered paid sabbaticals

Long-tenured Bank of America employees have embraced the paid sabbaticals, using their time off for travel, family, and personal growth.

Sometimes, when you launch a new employee benefit, uptake is slow. It’s hard to build awareness or buy-in, even if it’s a very strong offering. But as it turns out, that wasn’t true here at Bank Of America when we started offering folks paid sabbaticals to simply . . . not work.