In a recent news article on businesstraveller.com, we reported that business travellers in Asia were the most likely to forego adding leisure travel to their business trips. According to the study, by travel management company Egencia, this was due to employees worrying that their boss would disapprove. While I can understand people grimacing at the term “bleisure”, the concept, surely, is to be welcomed with open arms.
There’s a tide of change in the way we view the work/life balance, driven by the millennial vanguard. Dismiss them as entitled snowflakes if you like, but I think they’re right: work hard, yes, but play hard too. Nobody is at their most productive if they’re burned out, stressed and anxious. As the saying goes: a happy employee is a good employee.
Besides, I’ve long…
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Business Traveller Asia-Pacific Edition (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2018