Business Travelers Are Searching for a Better Work-Life Balance
Photo Credit: Business travelers are looking for more work-life balance, and companies with younger workers are finding it. Here, attendees at a business conference eat dinner. Flickr / Hui Yao
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Everyone wants a better balance between their personal and work lives. Younger travelers are leading the charge when it comes to helping push forward more progressive change in corporate travel policy.
Business travelers want a lot of things: quality accommodations, safety when traveling, the freedom to be able to enjoy themselves during even the most onerous trip, and the ability to balance their work responsibilities with their personal lives.
Work-life balance, in particular, has taken on a new level of importance as digital technology has made it easier work on the road, according to a new study from the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) and American Express Global Business Travel.
"Modern business travelers are less frenetic and more deliberate," writes Greeley Koch, executive director of ACTE. "They travel for two reasons: to meet their corporate objectives and to support their life’s objectives. For a growing number of them, the first is
