Over the past year I've had the opportunity to travel quite a bit (ahh, the luxury of studying abroad while in college). During my free weekends I traveled around Europe, even spending my spring break in sunny Malta. Loving travel as much as I do, I can't help but remark how great it is that in our day and age I don't have to be confined to a desk at all times to get my work done.
Most recently I spent a week in the Big Apple, both touring and working in the city. I find it is an amazing feeling to always have the capability to be connected with the people we want or need to reach. I can easily email someone with an idea as I am waiting for the light to turn green in Times Square, how much better can life get for an aspiring globetrotter? Granted not everyone has the luxury of being able to work away from the physical office, but with the latest and greatest online tools becoming ubiquitous we no longer have to stay chained to a desk or locked away in a corner office.
Fortunately for me, Pingsta embodies and embraces new forms of collaboration. We - the Pingsta team - are spread out throughout the continent, some of us have never even met in person, yet we are able to collaborate as conveniently as if we were all in the same room. Call me an optimist or even an idealist, but I think it's fantastic to be experiencing this virtualization revolution firsthand!
Cheers,
Owen
2 comments:
Traveling and working don't go hand in hand... that's what most workplaces would have you believe anyway. I get 6 official PTOs for the whole year and I don't get to travel much for work, so keep that in mind next time you find yourself trotting the globe.
Wow only 6 PTOs/year? Is that legal in the US, cos it sure isn't in Europe.
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