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To Reward Longtime Workers, This Company Gives Them a Month Off (Paid)

The Midtown Group Washington, D.C.

THE BENEFIT

One-month paid sabbatical every six years

COMPANY SIZE

25-49 employees

Jesse Barkers missed his native country of Ghana. He also missed his grandmother, who had raised him there. A payroll manager at the Washington, D.C.-based staffing firm the Midtown Group, Barkers

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