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

Facebook Launches Libra Coin – A New Digital Currency

Technology has improved the world around us, it is easy to send text, pictures and documents but why not money. What if we made the money truly global, stable, and secure. What if everyone has invited to the Global economy with access to the same financial opportunities.

This thought laid a pavement for Introducing LIBRA a new global currency designed for the digital world, backed by the belief that money should be fast for everyone from any corner of the world.
Its powered by Blockchain, making it safe, accessible, no matter who you are and where you’re from. Let's have a look at the below infographic from MrBTC to know more about this.

The Rise of Social Media

It is an accepted by the world of business that social media plays a vital role in digital marketing, allowing spirits brands to reach millions of consumers worldwide.The tremendous use of social media is demonstrated brilliantly in this data from Statista, which gives a projection for 2019 social media users to reach approximately 2.77 billion people. That’s right… 2.77 billion! That’s 36% of the estimated current worldwide population of 7.7 billion (shown in this equally brilliant Current World Population clock ). According to research from Betipy, the 2.77 billion social media users in 2019 have risen from the recorded 0.97 billion users in 2010, giving a whopping increase of 1.8 billion over this 9-year period. The scale of this is simply unimaginable, and it’s set to continue, with 2021 figures expected to increase by a further quarter of a billion users to reach 3.02 billion.

This isn’t a unique case, and this process of evolution has driven the social media landscape from a selection of early, cumbersome sites, all the way through to the wealth of brilliant platforms available today. We went from Piczo and Bebo to Facebook and Twitter in a matter of years. Many past social media successes have been destroyed by their upcoming new rivals, such as the overthrow of Myspace by Facebook. It’s interesting to read old articles that discuss this takeover as it was happening, such as this Forbes article from January 2011. The article explores how and why Facebook flourished while Myspace deteriorated, eventually leading to Myspace being forced to lay off half their workforce in the same week as the article. 

As the old giants fell, the new behemoths rose. According to another informative bar chart from Statista, the top five most popular social network platforms worldwide, in terms of their number of active users, are:

1. Facebook: 2,320 Million
2. YouTube: 1,900 Million
3. WhatsApp: 1,600 Million
4. Facebook Messenger: 1,300 Million
5. WeChat: 1,098 Million

Interestingly, some sites that may be widely considered larger, such as Twitter and Snapchat, fall further down the list, at #12 (330M) and #17 (287M), respectively.