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by masklinn 4161 days ago
It has all the aspects of a vacation except for the vacation part. Working from an enjoyable location does not make it a vacation.

It's remote work, not vacation. The ability to remote from various locations part or all of the year may be an interesting job perk, but if it burns vacation days you're just getting shafted.
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ceejayoz 4161 days ago
Why would it burn vacation days?

If I'm doing remote work in Paris instead of upstate NY, I'm going to probably feel like it's at least partially a vacation as I'm going to be walking the Seine in the evenings and visiting landmarks on the weekend.

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barrkel 4161 days ago
There's more than one aspect to a vacation. Many people specifically take vacation so that they can travel. The end goal isn't necessarily time not working, it's experiencing new things in new places.
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masklinn 4161 days ago
> There's more than one aspect to a vacation.

Never said there was only one way to spend your vacations.

> Many people specifically take vacation so that they can travel.

So?

> The end goal isn't necessarily time not working

The point of vacation very much to have time off. What you do with that time off is up to you (possibly up to working at an other job), but if it's not time off it's not vacation.

> it's experiencing new things in new places.

And if you can negotiate to do that without taking vacations more power to you, but again vacation is time off.

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