Off-Ramps and On-Ramps Revisited

The findings were announced at The New York Times auditorium with presentations by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, one of the authors of the study and Founder and President of The Center for Work Life Policy, and Lisa Belkin, the author of the New York Times Magazine cover story "The Opt-Out Revolution” which caused a media firestorm about time-outs from careers ("off-ramping”) in 2003 and inspired the Center’s first study of the trend in 2005. Since the recession, the study found, timeouts or "off-ram...