Opinion

September 3, 2021

Why I became a boomerang employee

Sometimes the only way to move forward is to boomerang back.


Marie Krebs

4 min read

The Lernerbly team. Credit: Learnerbly

I loved my job at the workplace learning platform Learnerbly, but I still decided to leave.

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