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Opportunities are ahead for those travel and hospitality companies that build the right products and platforms to address the needs of distributed workforces. Sabre's Google partnership certainly gives it a headstart.
Welcome to Skift Future of Work Briefing. In my years covering corporate travel, the beat has never been without its fair share of constant change. But the pandemic year has crushed nearly every expectation for the sector.
Now, after countless Zoom meetings, for far too long, employees are desperate for human interaction, and the travel industry is waking up to the fact it has a role to play here. Whatever happens to the future of work will determine the new trajectory of business travel and the meetings and event sectors.
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Covering the corporate travel sector at the start of the pandemic, the consensus was that it was more of a pause, and the only problem really was how to switch things back on, with no realization that for the most part, businesses could function without spending billions of dollars on travel programs.
The pause went on for longer than expected, an