Era of ultra\u002Dremote work is here as business\u002Dleisure takes off
It’s the latest attempt to find a happy medium between working arrangements like Airbnb Inc.’s — where staff can work anywhere, anytime — and those at companies like Tesla Inc., whose chief executive officer Elon Musk tweeted that unless employees turn up in the office, “we will assume you have resigned.”
Officials in tourism hotspots Thailand and Indonesia see the longer-term travel trend working in their favour — if everyone can get the rules right. There is one drawback: “Potential guests ask us, how legal is it for me to come and stay and work?” Despin said. “At the moment, we don’t have a specific answer.”
Thailand began experimenting early in the pandemic with programs designed to attract longer-term travellers, such as golf-course quarantines and “sandbox” arrangements. The country got about one-fifth of its economic juice from tourism before COVID-19 arrived.
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