Planning a Workation Last-Minute Jitters & Workation Worries

Last-Minute Jitters & Workation Worries

We’re getting ready to leave for a 6-week London workation this week (!) and I always feel some hesitation as the departure date nears: What if something goes wrong? What if we don’t like the nanny? What if our apartment gets canceled on us? Why are we completely uprooting our daily routines and norms, which …

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Planning a Workation Finding a Neighborhood when Living and Working Abroad

Finding a Neighborhood when Living and Working Abroad

If you’ve narrowed down your workation choice to a particular city (go here for ideas on narrowing your options), how to do you figure out where to stay in that city? Which neighborhood is best? First, a note on city size: We’ve only workationed in large cities, and that’s by design. In Minnesota, we live …

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Planning a Workation Getting your Employer to Let you Work Remotely

Getting your Employer to Let you Work Remotely

I’ll admit, being a public relations consultant with clients spread out all over the U.S. makes it relatively easy for me to take a workation. Other than receiving emails in the middle of the night because of the time difference, I doubt most of them would even know I was working halfway around the world. …

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