Business Travel Is Tough on Employees’ Home Lives: Bleisure Can Help
Photo Credit: A tourist in Singapore takes photos of the landscape. Adding leisure days to the back end of frequent business travel is proving to lessen the stress of corporate life. Flickr / Cyria Gonzales
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New research has important info for employers who want to make sure their travelers stick around and don’t come to resent frequent work trips.
Business travel is filled with hassles and stress, whether it be airport security lines, long flights, or time away from family and friends. Meanwhile, bleisure is on the rise, as employees tack extra days onto their work trips to step away from the grind and explore new destinations.
Bleisure might actually be key to preventing travelers from burning out, and employers play a pivotal role in promoting this, suggests a new report from CWT. Across countries and age groups, travelers who reported that their workplaces were unsupportive of extending their trips for leisure were also more likely to say that the negatives of business travel outweighed the positives, especially when it came to their home life, according to the report.
“It’s important that we recognize the true value that travelers find in their travels and understand what provides the
