{"id":2632,"date":"2017-03-02T20:14:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T19:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:52:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T13:52:43","slug":"not-eager-to-go-on-a-business-trip-how-about-bleisure-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/2017\/03\/02\/not-eager-to-go-on-a-business-trip-how-about-bleisure-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Eager to Go on a Business Trip? How about Bleisure Travel?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What comes to your mind, when you think about business travel<\/strong> or business trip<\/strong>s? If you are a novice in this, I assume you would feel excitement. Business travel<\/strong> may sound like a great opportunity to get out of your daily routine, visit new places, meet with new colleagues and do some sightseeing, all of which at the employer\u2019s expense J. Now, if you are a frequent business traveller<\/strong> already, I would argue that you might rather think about all the downsides<\/a> of it: airport waiting lines, fast food, long working days and boring evenings in the hotel rooms, which start looking the same irrespective of your whereabouts\u2026<\/p>\n

Although the picture I have just depicted may seem a bit too dramatic, the downsides of business travel<\/strong> are inevitable. Yet, as business trip<\/strong>s continue to be a common practice in big multinational companies, solutions seem to be emerging<\/a>. One is called \u2018bleisure<\/strong>\u2019, or \u201cbizcation\u201d, or \u201cworkcation\u201d, all of which imply the combination of business trips<\/strong> with some personal vacation <\/strong>or leisure time<\/strong>. As noted in Skyscanners\u2019 blog article<\/a>, according to several field surveys, bleisure<\/strong> is a growing trend among business traveller<\/strong>s, and especially millennials. Employees\u2019 motivation is quite obvious I guess, but what\u2019s in it for companies?<\/p>\n

A recent Forbes article<\/a> suggests companies to encourage bleisure <\/strong>trips more, as it brings benefits not only to employees, but also to employers. The main reason to incorporate bleisure<\/strong> into companies\u2019 travel policy is simple: a happy employee is a better employee; a happy employee stays in the company. Hence, we are speaking about motivation, engagement and retention here. Apart from the aforementioned though, extending the duration of a trip can actually help companies to save some money, by avoiding peak time fares and receiving discounted prices for longer stays in hotels.<\/p>\n

Seems like a win-win situation? Quite possibly, but only if well managed. I believe we all know how even an ordinary vacation might get messed up because of all the unfinished work stress, right? Well, bleisure<\/strong> may be no different. In order to avoid extra stress and burnout with this seemingly beneficial initiative, I would argue that both company and employee should put some thought and planning into this. If the company provides an opportunity for extended stays for leisure, it is also the employer\u2019s duty to respectively manage subordinates\u2019 workload while on a trip. In this sense, \u2018doing as much as physically possible\u2019 while visiting a foreign subsidiary is not a good plan. Moreover, a company could arrange for housing opportunities, which make access to the city centre or main attractions (based on employees\u2019 interests) easier. From the employee\u2019s standpoint, you need to plan ahead (e.g. make theatre reservations; plan for places to visit), as well as stick to keeping this strict work-leisure balance\u2026 at least for this short period of time \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What comes to your mind, when you think about business travel or business trips? If you are a novice in this, I assume you would feel excitement. Business travel may sound like a great opportunity to get out of your daily routine, visit new places, meet with new colleagues and do some sightseeing, all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":2633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18330],"tags":[102529,18386,102530,89505,102532,24362],"class_list":["post-2632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views-and-news-about-expatriates","tag-bleisure","tag-business-travel","tag-business-traveller","tag-business-trip","tag-leisure-time","tag-vacation","megacategoria-mc-leadership-and-people-management"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2632\/revisions\/2635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/expatriatus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}