Originally Posted by
Astaroth
Most companies I've worked for have been fairly reasonable and appropriate managers have had discretion to change things - 14 hour flight and going straight into the office for a 8 hour workshop? You can fly Business despite the policy saying it should be PE. Flying the day before and so straight to the hotel, then its PE.
Going to bet if you did a simple linear equation here, it would be cheaper to fly that person out 2 days early on economy, put them up in a hotel, and have them fully rested for that workshop - even accounting for the 2 days of productivity lost. And who wouldn't rather have 2 days sightseeing/recharging?