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Out of office: The rise of the ‘workcation’
Companies including Google and American Express are allowing staff to work from their holiday locations.
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Summer “workcations” – essentially doing a job from a holiday location – are a new item on the menu of post-Covid-19 working options.
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Simon Kuper
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Ms Dalia Hamiyeh, a communications executive at Publicis in Lausanne, will spend a week this summer working remotely in her family’s homeland of Lebanon.
In 2022, the French media group began allowing staff to work for up to six weeks a year from any of the 100-plus countries where it has offices. “Most of us use the time in summer,” said Ms Hamiyeh.
