【翻译】Adventuring to Spur Creativity at Work【通过探险激发工作中的创造力】

    What would you do if you had extra time off and a wad of cash to accomplish somthing on your bucket list?

    【如果你有额外的时间与金钱去做想做的事，那么，你会去做什么事呢？】

    Ray Clark is offering longtime employees at the Marketing Arm [this opportunity]:

    【Ray Clark 受雇于市场部已经非常久了[这次机会]:】

    Anyone who has been with the Dallas-based marketing and promotions agency for at least seven years is being rewarded with seven days off and $2,500. Those who have made it to Year 15 or beyond get a 15-day bonus and $5,000 to do something they've longed to do but didn't have the time or money for. "This is something I came up with, but it got wildly embraced," says Clark, who announced the unexpected perk to start off 2012 with a bang. "This has created quite a buzz." Days off have to be taken in one chunk, so when weekends are attached, employees get 11 or 21 days to do something personally rewarding.

    【所有在达拉斯的市场部和推广部工作了至少7年的人，都会得到7天假期2500美元的奖励。那些在这里工作接近或者超过15年的雇员，会得到15天5000美元的奖励。他们可以做他们渴望已久却没有足够的时间与金钱的事了。“这是我提出来的，它得到了广泛的赞同”Clark说，他宣布的这个意想不到的福利，给2012年伊始带来了惊喜。“这可引起了不小的震动。”放假时间必须一次性休息完结，所以把周末算上，雇员们可以得到11或者21天的时间去做个人的事。】

    Adventure approval

    A four-person review committee of their peers will give the proposals thumbs up or down or ask for modification. But everyone gets one and has two years to complete it.

    Staffers are being asked to:

    Do somthing that betters their lives or the life of someone else.

    Learn something they've always wanted to learn.

    Investigate or pursue something they are passionate about.

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    Action!

    Clark, 47, got the notion a few years ago after giving himself a month off to write a couple of movie scripts. The Marketing Arm chief executive figured he'd be a dandy screenwriter, but he'd always been too busy running the agency he founded in 1993.

    He wrote a script and started another. The one he finished was actually purchased and produced. It bombed. "I found I really wasn't good at it." he said, "It was humbling, but I was glad I did it."

    The program is a reward for people who reach their seven-year or 15-year anniversaries. Since it's new, those who have already passed those milestones get a sabbatical, too.