Skift Take
It’s all about priorities. Companies are now reviving their travel programs with a new set of top-down corporate focuses, regardless of where employees choose to work from.
Future of Work
As organizations start to embrace distributed work and virtual meetings, the corporate travel and meetings sectors are preparing for change. Read Skift’s ongoing coverage of this shift in business travel behavior through the lens of both brands and consumers.
You may have noticed the status quo has all but returned.
For several months now the corporate travel sector has been preoccupied with pre-pandemic favorites like booking channels, sustainability and simply getting back out there.
It's a welcome change from pre-departure Covid tests and mask mandates. While the pandemic has faded, the concept of remote work hasn’t. It's morphed significantly since the start of the year. At first it was compulsory; now it's a lot more fluid in nature.
Skfit’s Future of Work Briefing has chartered its evolution for more than two years. We’ve examined how household travel names adjusted to new types of travelers; how governments and their economies reacted to the growing numbers of digital nomads; how travel entrepreneurs created new businesses to respond to their new needs.
The conclusion? Every business has been impacted in some way.
Take Skift for example. Early on in the pandemic we permanently closed our global office network and dived into the world of virtual work.
From a personal perspective, working remotely opened up the door to relocate to a new country, France, creating multiple new sets of travel patterns, professionally an