Future of Work
Working From a Tropical Island Is the New Working From Home
Business-leisure travelers are a growing breed, and tourist hotspots want their trade.
Surin Beach in Phuket, Thailand.
Photographer: Luke Duggleby/BloombergIn the new world of work, there’s a new type of employee: The business-leisure traveler.
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.”