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The Gift of Time: Why Higher Education is Rethinking Workplace Flexibility Through Birthday Leave and Shorter Workweeks

For many professionals, the approach of a birthday brings a familiar tension between the desire for personal celebration and the unrelenting demands of the modern workplace. Jessi Gold, the chief wellness officer at the University of Tennessee System and an associate professor of psychiatry, argues that the refusal to work on one’s birthday is not […]

October 3, 2026