Frequent Business Travelers Need More Sleep to Survive
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I'm tired, you're tired, we're all tired when we travel for work. It's leading employees to burn out and quit, causing problems for travel managers and companies that push their workers too hard. Some sleep and nicer flights can help.
Business travel burnout is real, and those who travel the most tend to have the highest risk of negative health effects and inevitably quitting their job for something involving fewer treks away from home.
New data from Airline Reporting Corporation and consulting group tClara show that health concerns should be a larger part of travel policy to boost both personal and economic outcomes of business trips.
The Achieving Better Business Travel Results: Insights from U.S. Road Warriors report polled 742 U.S.-based road warriors on their experience with burnout, staying healthy, and attitudes toward their employers.
The research found that the quality of a trip, whether in cabin class and hotel type or the types of meals a traveler scarfs down, correlates strongly with whether a work trip is viewed as successful afterward.
"Road warriors, those who spent at least 35 nights away from home and took at least four trips by airplane in the last 12 months, say there is a 24 percent chance that they will voluntarily leave th
