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Workation - nice or stupid?

I have recently received several ads on LinkedIn regarding workation. I am not sure if I think it sounds stupid or not.

I get the appeal of going south (I am from Denmark, we just had the most rainy summer ever recorded) and enjoy the weather, but at the same time it sounds like the perfect way to not enjoy your time abroad.

I work in a position where I could easily ask to work remote for a week or two, thus the targeting ad is correct that I am in the segment.

Any thoughts, experience or opinion on this?

philpo ,

We do it regularly - but from a much different angle than the US is sometimes promoting it.

We take 2-3 weeks off work as everyone does in my country. The problem is: Schools off much longer and neither the wife nor I can get more than 3 weeks off in a row (there are other school holidays to cover as well…). So we usually add another week or one and a half and work with reduced hours (accrued overtime, neither of us works for more than 5h per day) and usually mixed (half the time I take off work, half the time she is off work) time off periods. That works wonders as it is still much more relaxing than being back in the daily grind at home and the location away from home forces you to not do something about all the leftover chores waiting for you at home and often it’s easier to get the kids entertained at a vacation location. That helps a lot.

Actually my friends company explicitly promotes this type of arrangements as they found their staff satisfaction to be much higher this way.

If you just go somewhere else to work from there without time out…well… that’s a fucking business trip. Not a vacation.

Twelve20two ,

The only way I’d do that is if my employer paid for travel, food, and lodging. And even then, I’d do as much as I could before leaving and then just phone it in during the week as much as possible.

JamesStallion ,

I worked remotely from Caye Caulker Belize for severalmonths and I was literally the dude in this photo, only much more stoned.

orca ,

The idea of “work vacations” only exists because capitalism demands the entirety of our lives. I’m not working on my vacation, period.

Atemu ,
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I agree but it’s supposed to be the other way around: Have a bit of vacation while you work. You still get your actual PTO in addition to that which you can use on an actual vacation.

orca ,

See it never works out that way. My experience has been that I’m stuck working more than I am vacationing, and when I’m not working, I’m thinking about work the whole time. It also means I’m not doing the same level of focused work as I can at home. I have hardcore ADHD and introducing more distractions is something I have to personally steer away from. So I’m either in (fully on a vacation) or I’m out (fully working in my own space). There’s no in between.

yads ,

I think that’s a skewed way of looking at it. I can see the appeal if your family is able to take advantage. Like if your kids are off and your spouse doesn’t work (or maybe can also work remotely). That way you can enjoy some nicer weather and a different location and are able to stay longer. It’s definitely not for me because like you said I’d rather just have a vacation, but I think blaming it on capitalism is a bit of an odd way of looking at what’s essentially someone’s lifestyle choice.

HobbitFoot ,

The problem is that it gets presented as a way to take time off from your job with “unlimited” vacation time while still working, which of crap.

The idea only works as a more extreme form of remote work. So, remote work where some of the time is at Grandma’s.

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