More Brits are using new flexible employment practices to extend their overseas trips, enabling them to work while overseas, says Holiday Extras.
The travel extras specialist said its research among 500 customers in August showed that one in three plan to swap their “desk for a sundeck” for at least one week before the end of next year.
The company has also reported its biggest booking day since the start of the pandemic.
It dubbed the new trend as WFH – work from holiday – as more of us book a ‘woliday’.
The poll suggested that 6% have ‘wolidayed’ already this year; another 14% plan to try it before the year is out; and 21% planning to WFH (work from holiday) before the end of 2022.
Seamus McCauley, head of communications at Holiday Extras, said: “With the start of the year lost to lockdown and the unpredictable traffic light system causing chaos over the summer, it’s no wonder sun-starved Brits are finding ways to extend their breaks.
“So many of us have got used to working remotely that thousands of companies have simply made it a permanent policy.
“At Holiday Extras, for example, we’ve gone ‘hybrid-first’, an extension of our long-term policy letting people work remotely or from the office, and added the option to work from overseas one week a year for an extra week of ‘woliday’.”
He said the company’s weekly email campaign has now quizzed 330,000 holidaymakers, and more than 45,000 have said they plan to go overseas in September – more than in August and any other month for the rest of 2021.
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