{"id":1760,"date":"2011-10-04T15:52:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T15:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2011-10-04T15:52:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T15:52:52","slug":"the-inneficiency-of-travel-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/the-inneficiency-of-travel-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The inneficiency of travel &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from my previous post, there are some types of travel such as long-haul flying that can be good for enforced time away from the day to day world of emails (but please no wifi or mobiles on planes\u2026) giving you time and (sometimes) space, allowing you to think more strategically.\u00a0 But the downsides of this, such as needing time to recover from jet lag, higher health risks and reduced performance whilst travelling quickly counteract any benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Working from home has always been a good traditional alternative to the office, allowing you to make a physical break from the \u2018day to day\u2019 environment and focus on different issues.\u00a0 However, working from home for a lot of people now means a long series of conference calls focusing on tactical issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Why not start to look at setting up areas of the office for contemplation, concentration or longer term strategic activities.\u00a0 Create \u2018zones\u2019 within your building that are designed for different work types \u2013 focused work, collaboration, refreshing.\u00a0 For those areas that are designed for focused strategic work, make them outside of wifi or mobile coverage to help with the enforcement of this being strategic time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from my previous post, there are some types [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[508],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}