How to make workcations work for your company [Infographic]

Vacation season is in full swing! But if you work fulltime in the USA, there is a lot of evidence to suggest you won’t be getting much time to relax this summer.  Studies show that around half of Americans aren’t using up all of their allotted vacation days, and two thirds of Americans are spending at least part of their PTO working. But this shocking phenomenon isn’t exclusively due to demanding or exploitative employers. In many cases, employees themselves feel that they simply have too much on their plate to be able to take a vacation in good conscience.



In an effort to encourage employees to get out of the office every now and then, some employers are adopting “workcation” policies. The concept is simple: proactively make the decision to travel for a period of time while working remotely. Workcations come in many forms, from globetrotting fulltime as a digital nomad, to prolonging your vacation in exchange for tending to some light tasks poolside, to traveling with your team to an exotic locale where you can collaborate on a demanding project in luxury.


But workcations aren’t a fit for every person or company. Making workcations work for your organization means laying a cultural groundwork in which employees feel empowered to take the time they need to attend to their personal lives and health, both on and off the clock.


Here’s how that might look:

Source: Reservations