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For almost 48 years, Friends of Karen has supported children with life-threatening illnesses, and their families, with financial, emotional, and social support. Their social workers and family support staff stay with a family from the moment a child becomes ill, through treatment, and even after a child has passed. The work is deeply meaningful, and every bit as emotionally d...

In March 321 AD, Roman Emperor Constantine signed a decree that shut down every workshop, court, and marketplace across the empire for one day each week. He called it the Day of the Sun. He wasn't Christian. He was actually the high priest of Rome's traditional religion. Bu...

Seniority Based Entitlement (SBE) automatically gives employees extra leave once they reach the years-of-service milestones you set. The days are added on top of their existing quota.

Around 100 BC, Chinese government officials were sent home every fifth day to take a bath. That bathing day became the foundation of what historians now believe to be the world's first formal work week. 

Over the next 2,000 years, Imperial China built one of history's most elaborate leav...

A piece of broken pottery in the British Museum proves that workers building the pharaohs' tombs got paid time off when they were sick, fighting with their spouses, or even recovering from scorpion bites. This is the story of the world's oldest workplace attendance log and what it tells us about the s...