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Many UnHappy Returns – why the marketing and communications industry needs to rethink the employee experience for staff who’ve taken a career break

January 2, 2024

My 25-year career in comms has been punctuated by several breaks. Some were my choice – two spells of maternity leave and a sabbatical after my dad died. Others were circumstantial – redundancy and furlough. But what was consistent every time I returned to work was the truth in ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder’.I was gagging to get back. Of course, there was the self-doubt that comes from ‘being out of the game’ for...