Travel safety not prioritized, say a third of business travelers
A third of business travelers say their company does not make their safety a priority when they travel for work.
This is according to new research from CMAC Group, which aimed to gain insights into the measures and practices employed by businesses to ensure the well-being and security of their employees during travel.
The study also showed that one in five respondents said they were unaware of their workplace’s Duty of Care Policy when travelingtravelers for work.
The data indicates that 50% of business travellers independently source their own taxis, and 46% of business travelers use local private hire companies or taxi ranks, often without the review or guidance of their organization.
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These workers take ‘hush trips.’ Here’s how they’re hiding them from the boss
Hush trips may be getting harder to pull off.
Some companies are getting strict about their return-to-office policies, and it’s not as easy to slip away for a workcation without notifying the boss.
In the past year, nearly one in 10 workers embarked on a hush trip, according to a survey of 1,010 full-time workers by the vehicle rental website Price 4 Limo. And 27% said they did so to avoid having to use paid vacation days while they were gone.
Many workers keep mum about these trips to fend off productivity concerns and tax ramification questions from their employers.
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Navigating toward a new normal: 2023 Deloitte corporate travel study
By many measures,1 leisure travel in the United States and Europe reached pre–COVID-19 levels months ago, after following consistent upward trends since the rollout of vaccines in early 2021. Corporate travel, however, has been slower to return. Decisions about these trips face an entirely different calculus, accounting for a host of factors: traveler safety and willingness to board a flight, client interest in meeting in person, the value of attending a conference, and whether a virtual conferencing platform can replace the trip—just to name a few.
The second half of 2022 was affected by competing forces: On the one hand, the world had spent several months past the peak of pandemic concern, which helped pave the way for the growth of corporate travel. The United States dropped prearrival testing for most foreign visitors in June, several months after Europe.
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