Bleisure May Be Key to Preserving Business Travelers’ Home Lives
Photo Credit: Tourists take photos of the Milford Sound, a fjord off the southwest coast of New Zealand's South Island. Corporate travel can be challenging, but tacking on leisure can help relieve the strain and improve personal lives of employees. Flickr / Jocelyn Kinghorn
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A new report from CWT suggests that adding leisure days to business trips can reduce the negative personal impacts of corporate travel.
The strain of the travel itself is not the only reason why employees find work trips stressful. It’s also the fact that, a lot of the time, travelers are leaving behind partners, friends, and children, and having to cancel important personal commitments. It means that, while business travel is likely to help one's career, there’s a good chance it will make life more challenging outside of work.
Plus the trips are often so rushed that they have little time to enjoy the perks of business trips. One of the most exciting things about traveling is exploring a new destination, but that’s hard to do when trapped inside a conference room all day. One way employees are working around this problem is
