# Absurd Travel By:: [[Ross Jackson]] 2025-02-02 There is a correlation in the return to office frenzy: return to travel. Much of the “return” efforts are symbolic. The returns represent nothing more than the physical manifestation of power. Executives want to flex; employees are meant to comply. If anybody ever wanted proof that organizations are not primarily focused on maximizing profits, the phenomenon we are witnessing should provide sufficient evidence. Most business travel is an absurd waste of time, money, and resources. It is enacted for a variety of reasons, none of them dealing with work execution or maximizing profit. Virtual meetings accomplish much of what is needed more efficiently. If workers could claim all the time associated with travel, the organization would almost assuredly stop most business trips. Since the organization dictates that the worker travel and stay overnight, each of those hours should not only be fully compensated, but anything over eight hours should be at a rate of time-and-a-half. This is not to say that workers might never have to travel for work. There are, of course, circumstances that warrant travel. But, if organizations had to pay the entire travel expense, the amount of absurd travel would undoubtedly be reduced. Most organizations are abusive. Most people must take it. It is delightful to see what happens when a person who doesn’t have to take it responds to the typical organizational absurdities that are routinely accepted but should be resisted. #### Related Items [[Travel]] [[Work]] [[Absurd]] [[Organization]] [[Business]] [[Power]] [[Remote Work]] [[Resistance]]