There’s no place like home
The homeworking phenomenon gathers pace with the major players upping the ante in the battle to get new recruits to join their businesses.
But it is not surprising more and more travel consultants are looking to go down the homeworking route when you consider the job approval ratings that homeworking companies are getting.
Figures released exclusively this week by Travel Counsellors to Travel Weekly reveal an incredible 98% of its consultants go not wish to return to the high street.
A crucial factor in this appears to be the 85% of consultants who said their work/life balance had improved since working from home – and who can say that about their own jobs in recent years?
The ability to spread your workload over any given day, evening or weekend; and the option, particularly for women, of working while bringing up children is proving a winning formula.
What’s more, the intranet systems of the leading homeworking players means working from home doesn’t mean working in isolation.
In fact the daily support, be it online or over the phone, is arguably more than you might receive in the office.
All this is no doubt helping the major homeworking companies to buck market trends and report significant sales growth.
So it’s not just travel consultants who like the homeworking concept but their customers too.
Getting the green message across
The travel industry is to have its own mini-G8 summit in September to help the Government and media understand what the sector is doing to tackle environmental and sustainable tourism issues.
Travel Weekly is teaming up with ABTA to bring together the key stakeholders in the green and sustainable tourism debate.
The aim is to try to find a united stance behind which we can all stand when discussing the sector’s green credentials with the Government and the media.
At the summit we hope to agree a way of ensuring these messages are promoted to and understood by the Government and influential voices in the media.
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