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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the new corner office.

Today's tip is to consider taking a working vacation.

If you handle it right, devoting a little time to work while

you're on vacation can enable you to take a much longer vacation. And you and your family might just

decide that that's worth it. This episode is likely airing while my family and I are at the beach.

With camps canceled this summer, we decided to tack on a few extra weeks of rentals.

I also took along my laptop and scheduled some calls.

Why?

Well, if I do a few hours of work while we're on vacation, we can go for weeks.

If I decided to draw a bright line in the sand and say, no work on vacation, well, we probably wouldn't go hang out on the

literal sand for more than a week, if that. One of the upsides of working from home is that you

don't always have to work from home.

A coffee shop or co-working space can provide some variety, and a table at a beach rental can work, too.

Many people find it hard to travel far if they don't have unlimited vacation days, or even if they do.

We all have jobs that need to get done.

But location flexibility makes it possible to do some serious travel, as long as work can be part of the picture too. For instance, if you elect to

work on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday during a vacation week, you can get a full week

at a vacation destination, plus the weekends, for the price of two vacation week. You can get a full week at a vacation destination, plus the weekends,

for the price of two vacation days. Not bad. That means you could take a full month somewhere

for the price of eight or so days. And if your office closes for a day or two in there, as many

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