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Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to take a working vacation.
If you have any flexibility to work from home, working from a different home, particularly during August, can make you feel more relaxed and can make a lot of memories possible, even if it's not easy to take a ton of time off.
A few years after the pandemic, a great many knowledge workers are still working from home at least a few days a week.
Lots of organizations have settled on a schedule of roughly three days in the office and two days at home.
But in many cases, that is just a guideline, and the exact days themselves aren't strictly enforced.
The idea is that you need to swipe into the office a little more than half the time over the course of the year.
Now, a key point here, working from home really should be called remote work or perhaps location independent work.
Unless you need specialized equipment that your organization has installed at your home, you generally aren't required to actually work from your house.
Most people just choose to work from a home office because it is convenient, comfortable, and you already own or rent it, so you don't have to pay anything else to use it.
But if your work is truly location independent, then there is no reason not to consolidate a few of your remote work days and take a working vacation.
This might make it possible to get away for longer, even if you don't get a ton of vacation, or if you work for yourself and the work never really goes away.
For instance, maybe you rent a beach house for the month of August. you take the first week of august off and your office is closed the friday before labor day you also take two other fridays in the month off but work 12 days remotely from the beach you are still working but you can likely walk on the beach during lunch or if you've got a family and your family is with you you can go to the beach after 4 p .m or so every day with them them.
You're getting a lot of the upside of taking a month away without actually taking a month off, which is hard for a lot of people to do.
I've also seen this work even if you do have to go into an office.
Sometimes organizations have offices in places that you might consider a vacation destination, like other countries.
I know someone who planned to spend a month in Europe, during which she would spend two weeks working in her organization's Amsterdam office, while her husband and kids explored that city.
Then she would travel with them for the other two weeks around the Netherlands and other places.
She only wound up taking about nine days of PTO, but got the month in Europe experience.
Now, obviously this is easier if you either don't have children, or they are old enough to fend for themselves in a vacation location, or if your spouse is not working or else has an incredible amount of flexibility.
Absent these conditions, then this is more challenging.
But I know people who have found day camps for their kids in far -flung locales.
You rent an apartment near the beach in California for a month.
You work remotely and your kid goes to a local day camp.
You meet up for adventures after 4 p .m. and on the weekends, and on the handful of days that you take off, too.
Now, some purists might claim that taking a working vacation is ruining the whole point of a vacation.
I am a big fan of taking time off, wherever you are working, and I think it's also wise to set some boundaries.
If you are working while you have taken time away from normal life for a while, this is probably not the time to be doing overtime, or evening calls, or the like.
these are probably more coast days.
But I know that for me, if I couldn't work while I was traveling, I would not travel nearly as much. By the end of August this year, I will have been away from home for more than six weeks on things that at least kind of look like vacations.
I've worked on several days during them, because there is no way I would have been willing to get away that much if I couldn't.
So I think it is a worthwhile trade -off.
And if you are looking to make August, or any upcoming month, more fun, more adventurous, and more relaxed, consider that working from home doesn't need to mean working from your actual home.
Home can be somewhere cool, at least for a little while.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of our time.
Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at laura at lauravandercam .com Before Breakfast is a production of iHeartMedia.
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