In March, former ClearSlide Inc. GC Olga Mack was three months into a planned year off from full-time work—she wanted to travel and spend time on pursuits outside of the office, like her recent appointment to the California Law Revision Commission.

But then she got an offer she couldn’t refuse. Three months into her break, Mack’s re-joined the full-time workforce as vice president of strategy for San Francisco-based Quantstamp Inc.