The era of hybrid, flexible work has opened up a new kind of career path, one where the climb isn’t necessarily to the top. Used to be, the goal was to climb the career ladder: start in an entry-level position and travel in a single, vertical direction up the rungs to management, senior leadership, partnership, then maybe the C-suite.

Today, that mental image feels rigid, outdated even. In a newly hybrid, increasingly flexible world of work, the career landscape has changed: people with day jobs participate in the creator economy, and people outside of academia take sabbaticals as a way to reflect and recharge.

Read more here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/its-not-a-career-ladder-its-a-career-playground