[fernandotakai]

that's also what i thought -- vacations for me means a month away from work where i don't have to check anything work related (email, slack, pagerduty).

according to google, sabbatical is:

> a period of paid leave granted to a university teacher or other worker for study or travel, traditionally one year for every seven years worked.

[giaour]

It's paid leave because you're almost always expected to write or finish a substantial piece of scholarship. One month isn't long enough to write a book, so I don't think this is the model Basecamp is following