It is vitally important to keep informed of business and job developments during a career break.
Talk to your employer to agree the best way of keeping in touch.
You might, for example, agree that any in-house journals are forwarded to you.
If your organisation has a website, and you have easy internet access, this might be a mechanism by which you could keep in touch with developments at work.
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