Working from a tropical island is the new working from home


Business-leisure travellers are a subset of digital nomads, living and working abroad for longer than a typical holiday without taking up permanent residence. They usually spend weeks or months overseas before returning home, while other nomads may spend years on the road. — Man beach photo created by diana.grytsku - www.freepik.com

In the new world of work, there’s a new type of employee: The business-leisure traveller.

It’s the latest attempt to find a happy medium between working arrangements like Airbnb Inc’s – where staff can work anywhere, anytime – and those at companies like Tesla Inc, whose chief executive officer Elon Musk tweeted that unless employees turn up in the office, “we will assume you have resigned.”

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