June 4, 2008
With rain falling as steadily as house prices, stabbings piling up like the traffic on the road, and not even an appearance in Euro 2008 to get us through, Guru is unsurprised to hear that Brits are spending three hours each per week at the moment sorting out their summer getaways.
One question though: what do travel agents do to skive off work?
Seven in 10 workers polled by law firm Peninsula admitted using the internet to research and book summer holidays on company time - almost double last year's figure.
Well, dreams of the Italian Riviera or the beaches of southern Spain are clearly preferable to another day's paperchasing on Slough Trading Estate.
Let them daydream, disciples. The real wonder is that people are willing to slog away for 50 weeks at their employer's every whim just to get 12 nights in an all-inclusive towerblock with sunloungers.
But travel agents - they have to talk about holidays all day long, all year round. Surely they don't drift off on a quiet Tuesday afternoon to look into flight prices and climate guides?
Perhaps they search the internet for accounting spreadsheets, boring meetings, sales targets and outlook diary requests.
Guru wonders if there is a market for such office drudgery porn. He is off to investigate with a weak vendor machine coffee and an internal phone call.
Comments (2)
We will ask Travel Weekly readers, Guru.
Could it be that anyone working in a retail environment skives less? And that those office workers not toiling at the consumer coalface are the real offenders? Martin
Posted by Martin Couzins | June 6, 2008 12:59 PM
Posted on June 6, 2008 12:59
Hi,
Due to the boom in the tourism Industry, I hardly see people related to travel industry going on a holiday. my agent suggests me destinations but hardly move out. I wonder what they do in their vaccations.
Amit
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Posted by Recent Trends in Human Resources | June 9, 2008 11:35 AM
Posted on June 9, 2008 11:35