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Summer is here, and “workcations,” a blend of business and personal travel, are on the rise. According to data from Engine, a group travel startup, nearly two-thirds (65%) of full-time employed Gen Z workers say theyre likely to combine business travel with leisure travel. Also known as bleisure, this trend sees Gen Zers consistently adding extra nights to their work trips. Why? For many, it feels like a free trip. Others say it gives them a chance to visit cities they wouldnt normally travel to (35%), helps them maintain work-life balance (33%), and allows them to recharge and reduce stress (33%). If workcations are here to stay, what makes them successful for both employers and employees? In this article, we share expert and employer insights on how to make workcations work. Be transparent Ive combined business travel with family adventures across 60-plus countries, working during the mornings and exploring in the afternoons. My best tip? Be open with your company. I chose roles at global companies because I wanted my family to see the world with me. I told each company up front: “My kids will travel with me, but it wont conflict with my work.” They were always super supportive. In the end, blending work and travel not only sustained my careerit raised my kids to be fearless, adaptable global citizens. Jenny Dearborn, Chief People Strategy Officer and Talent Insights Practice Leader, BTS Companies may need to establish a formal program Prudentials Work From Anywhere program allows employees to work fully remotely for up to four weeks in the U.S. Recently, three employees utilized our Work From Anywhere program to work from San Diego for two weeks. They stayed together in a short-term rental, connected and collaborated in person, took time off to explore the city, and even used our volunteer PTO to volunteer with a local nonprofit. This is an example of our commitment to flexibility and employee well-being, which is supported through comprehensive benefits and programs. Im glad that this approach continues to help our people drive great outcomes for our business. Robert Gulliver, Chief Talent & Diversity Officer at Prudential Financial Time-box to make progress My wife and I have been living the nomadic lifestyle for about 10 years now. If you’re traveling every few days, it’s almost impossible to be truly productive. We stay in each place for at least two weeks, but ideally for one to three months. While it’s possible to respond to emails and chats and do other busy work while in transit, I’ve found that it’s crucial to build in workdays while traveling. These are days with zero plans other than work. Or at least, mornings with zero plans. If we’re going to explore in the afternoon, I’ll block about four hours in the morning to get some work done. I’ll spend the first hour responding to emails and any unanswered support questions. Then I’ll have three hours to focus on one or more larger projects. Time-boxing allows me to make significant progress in a short amount of time. I know I’ve only got a few hours, so I work quickly and efficiently. I’m far more productive when I know time is limited, and I use that time much more effectively. Ryan Desmond, CEO & Co-founder of CodingNomads Address resources, needs, and unhook The secret to recharging your batteries is ensuring that you fill three specific buckets, referred to as the ReNU buckets. The “Re” in ReNU stands for resources. To refresh yourself in your leisure time, you need to ensure that you replenish the resources that get depleted at work. The “N” stands for needs. To get a boost in your leisure time, you need to satisfy your physical need for sleep and your psychological needs, such as the need for autonomy. The “U” stands for unhooking, which involves psychologically detaching from work. It’s not enough to physically leave the office; you must mentally leave the office. Workcations won’t be recharging because they don’t allow you to fill the ReNU buckets. By continuing to work, you fail to replenish depleted work resources, and are likely to feel just as run down after a workcation as you felt before it. Jamie Gruman, PhD, Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph Consider embracing a workcation lifestyle Back in 2020, I was seeing my coaching and therapy clients in person, rushing between meetings, navigating packed sidewalks. It was a life I had carefully built. But when the world changed, I realized I was ready for something different. So I packed my laptop and headed west to Utah. Between client sessions, I explored hiking trails instead of crowded streets, soaking in the fresh air and wide-open views. After nine weeks, I decided to sell most of my belongings, let go of my office lease, and drive cross-country. I was thinking, “Why wait until retirement to live in the places I love?” For the past four years, I’ve embraced a flexible, minimalist lifestyle while working with clients online. Do I still miss in-person sessions sometimes? Absolutely. But being able to show up fully for my clients and live a life aligned with my values has been an incredible gift. Caitlin Magidson, NCC, LCPC, Coach and Psychotherapist, The Coaching & Counseling Company Find accommodations with strong Wi-Fi I help travelers experience both remote adventure and refined comfort across Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet. As someone who manages international clients year-round, I find that picking accommodations that are more than just Wi-Fi friendly is essential to a successful workcation. Youll need space, quiet, and reliable backup if youre on video calls when blending work and travel. My top tip for balancing work and exploration is to find a strong hotel Wi-Fi connection. Naresh Dahal, Operations Manager, Everest Luxury Holidays Treat workcations like a rhythm My family and I just returned from two months at seaall while working remotely and world-schooling our then-6-year-old daughter. My top tip? Having set “office hours” on sea days helped us maintain structure while still leaving room for the spontaneity and joy of travel. Even better, not having to manage the daily demands of our at-home lifestylecooking, cleaning, and laundry, all of which were taken care of on boardgave us a surprising amount of extra free ime we hadnt anticipated. Treat workcations like a rhythm, and be willing to make adjustments. By clearly separating time for work, time for exploration, and planning ahead with your clients or team, you can be both present and productive. Christianne Klein, Founder, FoodFamilyTravel.com
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Want more housing market stories from Lance Lamberts ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. A few days after I launched ResiClub in October 2023, I wrote an article titled The key housing market metric heading into 2024. In it, I reaffirmed a point I had also made at Fortune in 2022: that some traditional rules of thumbi.e., months-of-supply thresholds for what constitutes a buyers market versus a sellers marketcould struggle in this postPandemic Housing Boom environment, where theres downward pressure on prices. For the time being, I suggested that an easy-to-create and useful metric for housing stakeholders to followone that helps gauge short-term pricing momentum and whether downside risk might manifestis a local markets level of active inventory compared to that same markets inventory level in the same month of pre-pandemic 2019. The thinking was that markets where active inventory remains well below 2019 levels would still exhibit some tightness, while those where inventory has surged back to or above pre-pandemic 2019 levels would experience a shift in the supply-demand equilibrium more in favor of homebuyers. Heading into 2025, I recreated that analysis showing the dynamic was still holding true. Fast-forward to today, and this particular data cut still proves useful (overtime ResiClub believes its usefulness will diminishjust not right now). Generally speaking, housing markets where active housing inventory for sale has surged above pre-pandemic 2019 levels have experienced weaker or softer home price growth (or even outright home price declines) over the past 36 months. Conversely, housing markets where active housing inventory for sale remains far below pre-pandemic 2019 levels have, generally speaking, experienced more resilient home price growth over the past 36 months. Indeed, just look at the scatter plot below showing Shift in home prices since their local 2022 peak Vs. active inventory for sale now compared to the same month in 2019 for the nations 250 largest metro area housing markets. !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data["datawrapper-height"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var t in a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r,i=0;r=e[i];i++)if(r.contentWindow===a.source){var d=a.data["datawrapper-height"][t]+"px";r.style.height=d}}}))}(); Below is the same scatter plot as the one above, only its color scheme is adjusted to show which markets have LESS active inventory now than in 2019 (BROWN) and which markets have MORE active inventory right now than in 2019 (GREEN). Click here for an interactive version of the scatter plot below. !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data["datawrapper-height"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var t in a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r,i=0;r=e[i];i++)if(r.contentWindow===a.source){var d=a.data["datawrapper-height"][t]+"px";r.style.height=d}}}))}(); To see if this data cut still proves useful, lets swap out home price since their local 2022 peak for year-over-year home price shift. The answer is yesthe trend still holds. (Recently, both the Wall Street Journal and John Burns Research and Consulting created their own versions of this longtime ResiClub scatter plot.) !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data["datawrapper-height"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var t in a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r,i=0;r=e[i];i++)if(r.contentWindow===a.source){var d=a.data["datawrapper-height"][t]+"px";r.style.height=d}}}))}(); Below is the same scatter plot as the one above, only its color scheme is adjusted to show which markets have LESS active inventory now than in 2019 (BROWN) and which markets have MORE active inventory right now than in 2019 (GREEN). !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data["datawrapper-height"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var t in a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r,i=0;r=e[i];i++)if(r.contentWindow===a.source){var d=a.data["datawrapper-height"][t]+"px";r.style.height=d}}}))}(); The current regional bifurcationgreater weakness in Sun Belt and Mountain West boomtowns and greater resiliency in the Northeast and Midwestshouldnt be surprising to ResiClub readers. Given that we cover that regional bifurcation frequently, were not going to spend time in this piece discussing whats driving that bifurcation. Instead, lets discuss why this particular data cut is useful right now, and why overtime it could become less useful.
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The entire month of June is dedicated to celebrating the LGBTQ+ community and its many accomplishments and contributions to society. It is also important to take a moment to reflect on the struggles faced by this community and the work still left to be done against intolerance. Since Pride can directly trace its origins back to New York City, it is only fitting that the Big Apple hold a big parade. This years march takes place today (Sunday, June 29, 2025) at 11 a.m. ET Although some companies have scaled back their fanfare due to an anti-DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) climate, one could argue that makes this year all the more important. Let’s take a look at the beginnings of pride, this years focus, and how to catch the parade both in person and on television. A brief history of the NYC Pride March While many call the festivities a parade, Heritage of Pride, the nonprofit behind Pride events in New York City, prefers the moniker march. That’s because of the activist roots of the event. The march specifically honors the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising of 1969. During the 1960s, same-sex public displays of affection such as kissing, holding hands, or even dancing were illegal, so bars owned by organized crime groups became places of refuge for the community where they could express themselves freely with out fear. When police raided the Stonewall Inn on the morning of June 28, it angered bar patrons and those who witnessed the police harassment. A weeklong protest helped invigorate the modern gay rights movement. The following year, a march from the Stonewall Inn to Central Park was held to commemorate the event. In 1999, President Bill Clinton made the first official presidential proclamation declaring June Pride Month. In 2016, President Barack Obama made the Stonewall Inn a national monument. The anti-DEI movement and Prides response President Donald Trump’s second administration has rolled back many DEI initiatives, causing a ripple effect. As a result, many corporations have not been as enthusiastic in their allyship the year. A Gravity Research survey of more than 200 corporate executives found 39% are scaling back in 2025, with zero individuals reporting an increase. Sixty-one percent cited the Trump administration, conservative forces, and Republican policymakers as the reason for this shift. “Rise up: Pride in Protest,” this years theme, appears to be a defiant reaction to the current political climate. If those in power wont recognize the community, the people must step up. We must support one another, because when the most marginalized among us are granted their rights, all of us benefit, Kazz Alexander, NYC Pride co-chair, said in a statement. Pride is not merely a celebration of identityit is a powerful statement of resistance, affirming that justice and equity will ultimately prevail for those who live and love on the margins. What is the route for the NYC Pride march? The march will begin at 26th Street and 5th Avenue and conclude at 15th Street and 7th Avenue in Manhattan. How much does it cost to attend the Pride march? The event is free to attend. How can I watch or stream the NYC Pride march? If you can’t attend in person, join this years grand marshals Karine Jean-Pierre, Marti Gould Cummings, DJ Lina, Elisa Crespo and Trans formative Schools on television. Those watching from their homes can tune into WABC-TV, aka ABC-7, or wherever you live-stream abc7NY at 12 p.m. ET.
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