This was not an option during the peak “Baby boom entering the work force” of the 1970s and 1980s:

Currently in the interview process with some of the “top companies in tech”, Felt, 31, asserts that “none of them seem to care” about her taking a micro-retirement and rather say that they’d like to take one as well. “I think our world is changing and people and millennials who are in leadership roles are really starting to respect our need to take time off,” she adds.

While boomers are unretiring, exhausted Gen Z and millennials are taking a ‘micro-retirement’ from their careers

Lots and lots of data on the differences over the decades: How to show you know nothing of history without saying you know nothing of history – Social Panic

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