Remote Work Trips

I am currently sitting in my hotel room in Amsterdam at midnight watching the end of the AFC Championship game waiting for my 49ers to come on in about 40 minutes. I had planned on flying back home today, but decided to extend until Thursday for some meetings this week.

While I am happy to get the NFL games on TV in my hotel, I am a bit homesick. I wish I was in San Francisco for the game. It’s been over 2 weeks since I’ve been home. Modern technology such as FaceTime makes things as easy as it has been to keep in touch with loved ones and friends, but it obviously does not replace in-person time.

Unless aviation technology moves quicker, I don’t see a world in my lifetime where flight travel can take a 10 hour SF to Amsterdam flight and make it that much quicker or better. I hope to live long enough to see this, but we’re just not there yet.

Something in our lifetimes that we can look forward to is remote work becoming ubiquitous in our work culture. These long work trips would be much better if our family would be able to come with.

The tech world is much farther along in the remote work space for obvious reasons, but I look forward to the day when other industries catch up.

This standard of course starts with us who work for innovative companies. We have to set the standard going forward and perhaps even encourage this future of work.