Speaker 1: Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the New Corner Office.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to consider taking a working vacation. If
Speaker 1: you handle it right, devoting a little time to work
Speaker 1: while you're on vacation can enable you to take a
Speaker 1: much longer vacation, and you and your family might just
Speaker 1: decide that that's worth it. This episode is likely airing
Speaker 1: while my family and I are at the beach. With
Speaker 1: camps canceled this summer, we decided to tack on a
Speaker 1: few extra weeks of rentals. I also took along my
Speaker 1: laptop and scheduled some calls. Why well, if I do
Speaker 1: a few hours of work while we're on vacation, we
Speaker 1: can go for weeks. If I decided to draw a
Speaker 1: bright line in the sand and say no work on vacation,
Speaker 1: well we probably wouldn't go hang out on the literal
Speaker 1: sand for more than a week if that. One of
Speaker 1: the upsides of working from home is that you don't
Speaker 1: always have to work from home. A coffee shop or
Speaker 1: coworking space can provide some variety, and a table at
Speaker 1: a beach rental can work too. Many people find it
Speaker 1: hard to travel far if they don't have unlimited vacation days,
Speaker 1: or even if they do. We all have jobs that
Speaker 1: need to get done. But location flexibility makes it possible
Speaker 1: to do some serious travel as long as work can
Speaker 1: be part of the picture too. For instance, if you
Speaker 1: elect to work on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during a
Speaker 1: vacation week, you can get a full week out a
Speaker 1: vacation destination plus the weekends for the price of two
Speaker 1: vacation days. Not bad. That means you could take a
Speaker 1: full month somewhere for the price of eight or so days.
Speaker 1: And if your office closes for a day or two
Speaker 1: in there, as many people do for say the fourth
Speaker 1: of July, then you can take a month for the
Speaker 1: price of or seven vacation days. This is a pretty
Speaker 1: good deal. It makes it possible to travel to some
Speaker 1: exotic places. I know a lot of international travel is
Speaker 1: still limited this year with COVID restrictions, but in the future,
Speaker 1: an American family could go spend a month in Europe
Speaker 1: with the breadwinner working remotely for ten days in there.
Speaker 1: With the time difference, he or she wouldn't even have
Speaker 1: to miss out on all the sight seeing on those days.
Speaker 1: Working from two pm to ten pm in Spain could
Speaker 1: cover a work day in the US and allow for
Speaker 1: mornings with the family and museums. If you don't need
Speaker 1: to keep track of vacation days, maybe because you work
Speaker 1: for yourself, then this calculus is less relevant, But allowing
Speaker 1: for some work during travel weeks can still open up possibilities.
Speaker 1: Depending on where you're going and what you're doing. You
Speaker 1: could either do an hour or two before the family
Speaker 1: wakes up, or you could work for two to three
Speaker 1: hours in the afternoon while everyone apps or has screen time.
Speaker 1: If you choose your activities well, this can definitely be
Speaker 1: enough to keep the business going without you feeling like
Speaker 1: you're missing out. Just be sure to turn the business
Speaker 1: off when you're not working so you can relax. The
Speaker 1: good news is that unplugging for a little while will
Speaker 1: probably help you gain a fresh perspective. That's true even
Speaker 1: if you do a little work enough to make a
Speaker 1: long vacation possible. Do you ever work strategically on vacations
Speaker 1: in order to take a longer vacation. You can let
Speaker 1: me know about it at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and
Speaker 1: here's the succeeding in the new Corner Office. The New
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