Medical Leaves

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4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Have you taken extended time off due to an illness? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Anne Sugar, a cancer survivor and an executive coach. They talk through what to do when you’re recovering from an illness while working, giving notice after a leave of absence, or job hunting after a health-related employment gap.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.0	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.0	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:06.0	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.0	The truth is that we don't have to let the tension, conflicts, and misunderstandings get us down.
0:22.1	We can do something about them.
0:25.7	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:27.7	We take your questions about workplace dilemmas, and with the help of experts and insights
0:33.0	from academic research, we help you move forward.
0:42.2	Today we're talking about medical leaves with Ann Sugar.
0:46.1	She's a leadership coach, a former executive, and a cancer survivor.
0:47.7	Anne, thanks for being on the show.
0:49.5	Oh, thank you for having me here today.
0:52.9	Anne, what was your experience when you had to take a medical leave from work?
0:58.3	You know, I fumbled and bumbled around because I didn't have a specific playbook.
1:04.4	When I looked in research, there really wasn't that much out there in terms of, well, how do you handle these situations?
1:09.6	So flexibility seems to be really key, both on the employer and the employee side.
1:11.4	Oh, I absolutely agree.
1:17.4	And one way, if I think about it from an employer perspective, you have to lead by what the employee wants, right?
1:19.1	Some people, they don't want to have the meal train.
1:22.4	They don't want people visiting them in the hospital.
1:24.8	So from an employer perspective, you have to balance the
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