Hidden risks, duty of care and financial responsibilities mean companies need to set the boundaries on blended travel
The changing corporate travel landscape embraces the trend towards the workation, bleisure trips and more specifically longer-term arrangements brought about largely by younger employees keen to become digital nomads.
While the appetite for international remote work is growing, so too are determined efforts by corporations to maintain their talent pool. The cost of recruitment is much higher than the cost of keeping existing employees, so employers must flex and pivot to accommodate new working environments and maintain employee satisfaction levels.
Research from Ipsos UK and American Express GBT last spring found demand for more flexible working is widespread across the workforce. Based on 1,000 business travelers resident in the US and 817 business travelers resident in the UK, demand for blended travel stems from all age groups as almost two thirds (62 percent) of US and UK business travelers have extended work trips for leisure and half (52 percent) have incorporated work into leisure trips. Long-haul is a favored bleisure opportunity as is tacking on leisure time to conferences.
According to Christine Sikes, COO of Direct Travel, international remote work is growing particularly among knowledge workers, leadership and hard-to-retain talent. She believes that multiple factors are driving the trend: “Hybrid work normalization,...
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