Watson Wyatt offers sabbaticals.

Financial News, June, 2002

Watson Wyatt is continuing to offer senior consultants with a good service record the chance to negotiate career sabbaticals of up to a year.Investment practice leader Roger Urwin is setting an example by taking 12 weeks' holiday during the summer. Martin Knowles, head of investment manager research, has managed to negotiate a year's absence.

Craig Baker will take over.Knowles' departure follows the return of Crispin Lace from a year's absence. Lace returns as head of the Scandinavian office. Tim Hodgson is also a sabbatical beneficiary.Watson Wyatt knows that its consultants are working long hours for pay which cannot compare to the sums offered by investment managers. It believes that by offering an improved quality of life it will retain bright people for...

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