The current state of workation and its issues from the perspective of the corporate executives

Abstract

Although it’s been a long time since workcations have attracted attentions, until now, most studies have focused on workcation participants. This study was conducted on “executives in a position to let their staffs to participate,” and a comparative study was conducted to evaluate the current status of workcation by company size (more than 1,000 employees and less than 1,000). Although executives have some interests, the implementation rate is only about 10%, and about 70% do not expect it will spread in the future. When the executives were shown new purposes that differ from the vacation purpose, the “innovation type” of business creation in the region and the “education type” of cross-border learning were found to be of high interest. In addition, as a practical study, a trial project was conducted where the executives themselves participated in the new workcation program, and ascertained the level of interest in this new type of workation purpose.