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Nice, but somehow, very Victorian in thinking. Only wealthy people would be able to afford this kind of travel, vacation time or not.

(And no company would ever approve this kind of T&E, especially now that travel budgets haven't yet recovered from post-COVID cuts)

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I believe many corporations, as part of their net zero goals are actually incentivizing people to take trains rather than planes for work trips.

This is possible because of the legislation that forced airlines to document their carbon emissions.

Bear in mind that Covid has taught us what we can do when we need to, without commuting to work. I suspect a lot of CFOs are going to slap the big kibosh on routine business travel unless you can prove you can't do the job via videoconference.

Oh, they already did, Tim. Hence my last paragraph.

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