Ivy Sea Online: Can a Business Owner Take a Sabbatical?

The Sabbatical Chronicles –
CAN A SMALL-BUSINESS OWNER TAKE A SABBATICAL?

Many business owners toil for years before feeling like they can take a week or two away without checking in regularly via e-mail or telephone to monitor things back in the office. The thought of taking a real vacation, much less a sabbatical, can sometimes seem like an unrealistic dream.

Stories about people who take sabbaticals seem to center on employees who were laid off, or executives whose companies were acquired or who got so burned out that an emergency sabbatical was the only option – for their own and the company’s health. While these certainly make for interesting stories, they’re often not something that a business owner – the person with day-to-day, bottom-line responsibility for an enterprise – can relate to.

Can a business owner – the person who holds the ultimate responsibility for the organization’s continued vitality or demise – be spared for the weeks or months required for a sabbatical?

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