What is Career Break ?
A vocational break involves an extended time in which a person leaves work for a specific amount of time, leaving the brave decision to get away from a professional career. Typically, it involves a break so that personal issues such as caregiving, travel, education, or health can be treated seriously. Career breaks allow for time, space, and personal growth, development of new skills, or the reevaluation of career goals. There are many companies in the world today that are beginning to look at career breaks as an experience that is valuable in the sense that if people learn new skills or develop new perspectives while they are away, they have support for coming back into the workforce.
How HR teams use this term
HR teams usually use Career Break when they write policies, explain employee communication, review payroll or leave records, or keep employee data clean in an HRMS.
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