When Work From Home Turns Into Work From a Hotel Suite: The New Corporate Travel
Photo Credit: MGM Resorts has devised packages that turn rooms at its properties, including Aria, into offices. MGM Resorts
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Freed from the shackles of the office, the emerging "work from anywhere" trend is tempting for employees — and hotels. Some employers might have a different view.
What happens in Vegas ... can now be expensed. With its hotels half full, MGM Resorts is pitching hotel rooms as offices to a workforce that’s getting tired of working from home, and now looking to work from anywhere.
It’s not the only destination capitalizing on a trend that’s been accelerated by the pandemic, as Bermuda and Estonia have shown in their pursuit of the digital nomad. And it certainly won’t be the last. But alongside French hotel giant Accor and serviced apartment operator Ascott, MGM Resorts is among the first hoping to formalize — and scale up — the concept.
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