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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHart Radio. Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to take a working vacation. If you have any flexibility to work from home,

working from a different home, particularly during August, can make you feel more relaxed

and can make a lot of memories possible, even if it's not easy, to take a ton of time off.

A few years after the pandemic, a great many knowledge workers are still working from home at least a few days a week.

Lots of organizations have settled on a schedule of roughly three days in the office and two days at home. But in many cases,

that is just a guideline, and the exact days themselves aren't strictly enforced. The idea is that

you need to swipe into the office a little more than half the time over the course of the year.

Now, a key point here, working from home really should

be called remote work or perhaps location independent work. Unless you need specialized equipment

that your organization has installed at your home, you generally aren't required to actually

work from your house. Most people just choose to work from a

home office because it is convenient, comfortable, and you already own or rent it. So you don't have to

pay anything else to use it. But if your work is truly location independent, then there is no reason not to consolidate a few of your remote work days and take a working vacation.

This might make it possible to get away for longer, even if you don't get a ton of vacation, or if you work for yourself and the work never really goes away.

For instance, maybe you rent a beach house for the month of August.

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