MANY of us have found ourselves trying to explain to friends and colleagues that, no, business travel isn’t as fun and glamorous as it ...
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MANY of us
have found ourselves trying to explain to friends and colleagues that, no,
business travel isn’t as fun and glamorous as it seems.
Finally, there
could be proof to back this up. Researchers at the
University of Surrey, in Britain, and Linnaeus University, in Sweden, have
published a new study highlighting what
they call “a darker side of hypermobility”.
The “hypermobile”—largely but not
exclusively business travellers—have won a certain cachet in contemporary
society, with the worldliness they seem to acquire from their travels and the
envy-inducing social-media posts they leave in their wake.
But, the researchers warn,
“whilst aspects of glamorisation in regard to mobility are omnipresent in our
lives, there exists an ominous silence with regard to its darker side”.
The study, which synthesises
existing research on the effects of frequent travel, finds three types of
consequence: physiological, psychological and emotional, and social. The
physiological ones are the most obvious.
Jet lag is the affliction
travellers know best, although they may not anticipate some of its direr, if
rarer, potential effects, like speeding ageing or increasing the risk of heart
attack and stroke.
Then there’s the danger of
deep-vein thrombosis, exposure to germs and radiation—people who fly more than
85,000 miles a year (say, New York to Seattle and back every three weeks, or
New York to Tokyo and back seven times) exceed the regulatory limit for
exposure to radiation.
And finally, of course, business
travellers tend to get less exercise and eat less healthily than people who
stay in place. – The Economist
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