Business Travel Expectations

Companies fly people out all the time (well, pre-COVID). They pay for the travel expenses, but not your time. I personally find this much more of an imposition than spending a few hours writing some code in the comfort of my home.

You would think they would prefer zoom meetings since they aren’t paying for your travel?

I had a job that required and expected you to be able to travel to a customer site and it was stated up front in the job requirements (cloud consulting). But when we had internal team meetings, no one put any pressure on you to travel.But in my opinion it would have been dumb not to travel to meet your coworkers and manager in person. Besides, many of us would bring our spouses along and pay for their ticket out of pocket and extend our stay over the weekend if it was some place they wanted

Why are you travelling half way around the world? (funding, hiring, vacations, etc.)

I have no problem either remote with travel. They pay all expenses and I rack up hotel points/airline miles.

Yes, happily, if that can substitute for the $20k international business trip.

Why? You're working. You may well be traveling on your own time. I travel within guidelines but that doesn't mean traveling in the cheapest possible way even if it's more painful than it has to be.

Sure, business travel is definitely still a thing. But every company I’ve ever worked at has sort of accepted that travel days are lost anyways because people come in from all over the country, get in at different times, have delayed flights, etc. My point being that I’m skeptical that companies are going to start paying 2x, 3x, 4x the cost so that their employees can get there a few hours faster, especially when, at least in my experience, it’s hard to get them to even pay for seats with extra

Maybe he travels for work...easy to do if you charge expenses to your personal card and get reimbursed.

maybe just stop traveling to US would be easier and cheaper solution, why one need to be physically present anywhere in 2017?i find it odd, i can understand it for my father that when some of his agricultural company partners has training, people from neighboring countries must travel there for hours to stay there for few hours and go back, but IT company in 2017?reminds me of Huawei which is still organizing teleconferences (!) for trainings, because why not let people call across half pl