Home office, flexible hours, sabbaticals: the world of work is changing and has long offered more than just stubborn, gloomy work at a fixed workplace – day in and day out, for years, as the younger generations still know it from the older ones. The much-cited work-life balance should be important for employees these days. The new job models even extend to “workation” – ie the combination of vacation and work. Sounds exciting? Then read on!
Stand up and take a deep breath of the sea air. Switch on the laptop at the same time, check your first e-mails and then get to work relaxed – without the hectic pace at home in the morning, without coming to work in a traffic jam, without annoying colleagues holding you back from your actual work, without slowing down. drive home traffic and the overtime that follows yet at home in the family bustle. Beautiful fantasy? Yes, “Workation” has something. But also working from home and Co. are useful for a better balance between family and work and your own balance.
“Workation” – derived from the English “work” for work and “holiday” for vacation -, mobile working, remote working, home office, teleworking: the subject of new work models is “booming”, says labor law expert Jasmin Haindl of the Vienna Workers’ Chamber , “and we have more questions about it.”
Source: Krone
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