Business travel used to mean sending employees from their home office to somewhere else—to meet with clients or coworkers at other offices. But for many remote-first companies, it now means the opposite: Bringing employees together from their far-flung homes to work and meet in person.
These so-called “off-sites”—a holdover term from when these companies had actual sites—have the potential to change the face of business travel.
While consumer travel has roared back in 2022, business travel has been slower to rebound. Company off-sites could make up a larger share of that budget than in years past.
Doist, a software company with employees distributed around the globe, wanted something different for its company-wide retreat in July….