The Covid-19 pandemic and work-from-home policies have resulted in a wave of nomadic working professionals who have ditched their apartments for Airbnbs.
I used to have to travel for work. I hated it. Now I do the same thing for the same company but luckily it's in one area and I'm home in the evenings. The program my company uses to "pick" hotels for the duration of the job always found the worst hotels to stay at. Most jobs are either "travel all the time and never see your family/have free time" or gig economy jobs.
I did IT consulting and luckily never had to go that far, although I knew plenty who did. You just were put on the job and if they wanted you there onsite 5x a week in a city 1/2 way across the county for 6 months that’s what you did. The project I was in the same metro and I worked out of the house half of the time. The other half they would pay for a car rental just so I could go onsite, say hi to a few people, and do the same job that I was doing from home. The amount of waste just for “facetime” and to make someone higher up feel good about the fees they are paying is staggering.
I knew one person who had an apartment right in downtown but he basically didn’t live in it for a whole year. He flew out to the client Sunday nights and flew back Thursday nights (and had to still work on Friday of course lol).
I used to have to travel for work. I hated it. Now I do the same thing for the same company but luckily it's in one area and I'm home in the evenings. The program my company uses to "pick" hotels for the duration of the job always found the worst hotels to stay at. Most jobs are either "travel all the time and never see your family/have free time" or gig economy jobs.
I did IT consulting and luckily never had to go that far, although I knew plenty who did. You just were put on the job and if they wanted you there onsite 5x a week in a city 1/2 way across the county for 6 months that’s what you did. The project I was in the same metro and I worked out of the house half of the time. The other half they would pay for a car rental just so I could go onsite, say hi to a few people, and do the same job that I was doing from home. The amount of waste just for “facetime” and to make someone higher up feel good about the fees they are paying is staggering.
I knew one person who had an apartment right in downtown but he basically didn’t live in it for a whole year. He flew out to the client Sunday nights and flew back Thursday nights (and had to still work on Friday of course lol).