SAP Social Sabbatical — An Opportunity of a Lifetime

3 more days to go, and I’m off to Bangkok, Thailand, to start my <a href="https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2017_03_46558/enUS/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Social Sabbatical</a>, a program my employer <a href="https://sap.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">SAP</a> has offered internally for more than 10 years. Essentially, you go to a place in an economically less developed country and, together with 2 colleagues, work with a local non-profit organization or a social enterprise, i.e. an organization that wants to achieve social outcomes by using business tools. For 4 weeks, SAP employees bring in skills, experience, and capacity that are often not available to the host organizations, and support them with targeted projects. I applied for the program at the end of 2019, went through an interview process and was accepted shortly after, which entitled me to apply to any upcoming concrete project. And then the COVID pandemic hit and made travel impossible… <a href="https://medium.com/sap-social-sabbatical/markus-meisl-sap-social-sabbatical-an-opportunity-of-a-lifetime-c3f568d96e7d">Learn More</a>