Jun 17th, 2010 at 2:00PM: Sometimes, it seems like the road warrior's diet is relegated to the extremes. When a company executive is in town for a meeting – you're taking your clients out – it's hefty steaks, heavy cabernets and always more appetizers than a third-world country could consume in a lifetime. When there's no occasion to shape the meal, on the other hand, you're looking at suburban Chinese food ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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White Collar Travel: Five step to healthier road warrior diets
Jun 17th, 2010 at 2:00PM: Sometimes, it seems like the road warrior's diet is relegated to the extremes. When a company executive is in town for a meeting – you're taking your clients out – it's hefty steaks, heavy cabernets and always more appetizers than a third-world country could consume in a lifetime. When there's no occasion to shape the meal, on the other hand, you're looking at suburban Chinese food ...White Collar Travel: Five ways to make Mondays better
May 27th, 2010 at 2:00PM: For business travelers, Mondays are pretty miserable. Take everything you hate about Mondays and add to it a 4 AM wakeup, an hour at the airport and around five hours of transit time, and you'll get a sense of how much Monday blows for the average white collar traveler. Fortunately, there are ways you can make the first day of the week more tolerable, even you have to get up before the break of ...White Collar Travel: Five embarrassing confessions of a business traveler
May 20th, 2010 at 2:00PM:
Business travelers love to look poised, in control and too important for mere words, but there's a dark side to the lifestyle that can be downright comical. Sure, some of it will come across as sad, depressing or simply stupid. When you step back from it, though, it's hard not to let out a chuckle. The trivial becomes incredibly serious, and almost every situation seems like an opportunity to ...White Collar Travel: Four ways a Kindle can improve your productivity
May 13th, 2010 at 2:00PM: I've known several white collar folks who have spent their last hours in the office before a business trip printing off material to read on the plane. Laptop battery lives are never long enough, and nobody wants to waste it on reading. So, killing a few trees can buy a bit more in-flight productivity. This means filling a bag until it's almost to the point of bursting, though, as well as having to ...White Collar Travel: Five reasons to book your hotel stays in blocks
May 6th, 2010 at 2:00PM: Cost-conscious businesses are always looking for ways to reduce travel expenses. So, if you can find a way to cut yours a bit, you'll get some credit for budgetary discipline, which is always a plus when times are tough. Take the right approach, and you may be able to improve your travel experience, too. If you plan to stay at the same hotel for several months, it may make more sense to make a ...White Collar Travel Four barriers to giving up the road warrior lifestyle
Apr 29th, 2010 at 2:00PM: Some people are born for the road. They love getting on a plane every week, enjoy staying in hotels and look forward to the excitement that every new destination will bring. They are the distinct minority. Most have good days and bad, a few hate it, and many, after a while, look to give up the life and move on to something normal. With the demands of business travel – and the jobs that ...White Collar Travel: A Tale of Two Meals
Apr 22nd, 2010 at 2:00PM: Business travelers lead dual lives when they're on the road. One is nothing short of luxurious, and the other is nothing short of depressing. This isn't a case of good weeks and bad, and there is little they can do to engineer the frequency of the former over the latter. It all comes down to an uncertain mix of luck and timing. The contrast is most evident in the dining experience. Some meals are ...White Collar Travel Extra: Abercrombie CEO grounded!
Apr 18th, 2010 at 3:00PM: When you think about it, $71.8 million in total compensation just isn't what it used to be. That's what Abercrombie & Fitch Chairman and CEO Mike Jeffries raked in for 2008. Meanwhile, the company he was skippering showed a profit of $254,000. Basically, A&F as a company – with all the resources available to it – earned the decent salary of a lower-level executive. So, it's no ...White Collar Travel: Airline reward programs do it wrong
Apr 2nd, 2010 at 2:00PM: It's always amazed me that airlines reward passengers for the distances they go rather than the outlay of dough. Think back to the mileage run made a few months ago by Gadling's esteemed top dog, Grant Martin. He sought the cheapest fare he could find to rack up the miles he needed for the next status level. The upside, of course, was another year of premier treatment, and the dollars he put out ...White Collar Travel Extra: Helicopters signal return of the good life
Mar 27th, 2010 at 4:00PM: What do you think a New York area commuter's time is worth? Some of these guys will spend 14 hours a week or more sitting in buses, trains and cars just getting to and from the city. It adds up quickly. Well, if you take a look at what Liberty Helicopters is charging, a New Yorker's commuting time is worth $100 an hour.
Ferrying people six at a time from Manhattan into New Jersey, Liberty is ...White Collar Travel: Accelerate your trip to the hotel club-level lounge
Mar 25th, 2010 at 2:00PM: Access to a hotel's club-level lounge is a small perk. It doesn't equate to an ostentatious suite, but does rank higher than bathrobes. The amenities are nice, usually consisting of a mix of free food and liquor, but they won't change your life. For me, at least, the lure of the lounge involved having a place to go that wasn't my room. I could hit the lounge with a book and relax while sipping a ...White Collar Travel: Three perspectives on business travelers and their miles
Mar 18th, 2010 at 2:00PM: What would you do with 300,000 frequent flier miles in your account – not to mention enough hotel points to get you 10 days in the blissful destination of your choice? Your imagination is probably running wild, as mine did when I got my first travel-intensive gig a decade ago. I had visions of southern France: soaking in the Mediterranean sun, roulette in Monte Carlo and smoking Cuban cigars ...White Collar Travel Extra: Charles Hotel, Skype and the Business Traveler
Mar 14th, 2010 at 2:00PM: The Charles Hotel's recent small gesture may actually be a bold move. The hotel, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has decided to add Skype and video cameras to the free computer station that occupy rooms once dedicated to ice machines. It doesn't look like much more than a small concession to weary travelers who want to stay in touch with their loved ones, but it's actually a fairly hefty ...White Collar Travel: Monday morning mayhem: A business traveler starts the week
Mar 4th, 2010 at 2:00PM: Thomas Hobbes, the British philosopher, unknowingly described the life of the business traveler several centuries in advance: brutish, poor and short. Long hours, inconsistent diet and exercise and extended periods of emotional isolation virtually assure that many will burn out. This state of affairs is at its worst on Mondays, quite possibly the most miserable day of the week for the ...Business travelers on the brink of scoring free internet access
Jan 26th, 2010 at 3:00PM: Having to pay for internet access in hotels is nothing more than moronic. If the revenue is such a big deal, hotels should just slap the $9.99 -- or whatever it is -- onto the room rate and tell us they're giving it away for nothing. But, nothing's worse than spending $250 a night and having to pay another fee to connect to the web, which you're going to have to do even if you're on vacation, let ...First class is better than being CEO
Dec 2nd, 2009 at 1:00PM: Singapore Airlines has its priorities in order. Chew Choon Seng, the CEO, just saw his salary fall by 20 percent. And, the carrier has had to keep some planes on the ground. The decline in the travel market is taking a toll on everyone ... except the passengers in the first class cabin. The airline left intact the $8 million committed to offering Dom Perignon champagne to its best ...Corporate travel databases: give morale a shot in the arm
Nov 25th, 2009 at 8:00AM: "Corporate," "database" and "morale" usually don't show up in the same sentence – at least not without some sort of negative word nestled in there. Images of tedious data entry are conjured, which does nothing for your state of mind while on the road. Yet, these words can be joined, and the resulting concept can be a gold mine for any company with legions of road warriors. Every employee ...Don't become a hermit: eight tips for solo business travelers
Nov 17th, 2009 at 8:00AM:
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Solo business travel can be downright depressing. Even if you hate team dinners (and your colleagues), don't mind dining alone and prefer a bit of privacy, frequent individual business trips can turn you into a hermit. After a while, you socialize ...Six ways for road warriors to stay in shape
Oct 27th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Business travel can be brutal on your body. One night, you're out with clients, sipping that extra cocktail and scarfing down dessert – you don't want your client doing these things alone. The next day, you stuff fistfuls of French fries into your mouth between meetings and devour a fast food "snack" as midnight is closing in. The project needs to stay on track, so you eat what you can while ...Five ways to make long flights more productive
Oct 19th, 2009 at 4:00PM: Every business traveler has said or heard: "I'll get to it on the plane." By the time your bags are stowed safely overhead, however, it occurs to you that the flight won't be long enough for everything on your list. The problem I've seen is that most business travelers don't use this distraction-free environment as effectively as they could. If you could get more out of your flights, you'll have ...
