Originally Posted by
chleonard
Yup, which is why i go out of my way to avoid travel, likely to the detriment of my career. We can in theory get business for very long (14+ hours of travel) but it requires very high-level approval and is extremely rare. Every employer in my field is this way now, including some very well-known tech companies. The pay is extremely good but the travel policies are a joke. Definitely looking forward to retirement and never taking a business trip ever again.
I would seriously love to know who these large corporations are that have such generous travel policies...
Been a decade since I worked in corporate America but the travel policy at the F300 was 12 hours plus and required sign off by the CFO. One destination was 10 hours and I would not travel there until they agreed it could be business class.
Have had many public company clients over the years and unless the traveler was in the C suite it was coach for all international travel - no exceptions. That is a killer on red eyes. It is why most of the employees would only fly out Mondays and return on Fridays.