Workation: Urbanites in India flock to holiday spot Goa for better work-life balance

Entrepreneur Prashanth Challapalli loves working in his flat with its terrace garden in Goa. PHOTO: COURTESY OF PRASHANTH CHALLAPALLI
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BANGALORE - Well-to-do Indian professionals have found a workation to be a great strategy, especially when they began working from home during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ms Sharmishta Bhadra, 37, moved to Goa after nine months of working from her parents' home in Mumbai during the pandemic got "too overwhelming".

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