Are Business Trips For Families Too?

Business trips are like a two edged sword, You often have to sacrifice precious time away from your family in order to comply with your work and business obligations.   Even though you work is very important, shouldn’t there be a way to achieve more balance?

Apparently, many people are beginning to think so.  Corporate America is becoming  more flexible and is allowing employees more freedom in juggling  their office duties with family life.  What a refreshing phenomena!

Here are some interesting statistics.  The National Business Travel Association states that 62 percent of U.S. business travelers have started to add a leisure component their business trips.  How are they doing that?  They simply take a family member of a friend along when they travel for business.  Business trips no longer mean all  work and no play, long days in business meetings followed by lonely nights in a hotel room.  A new [tag-cat]business travel[/tag-cat] era is here. Read more