How do workers stay connected while on summer vacation? We surveyed over 1,000 American workers and discovered some interesting behaviors ...

1. RELAX
Stay connected during
summer travel
Work-Life Imbalance
59%
41
of workers work during
“vacation”
59
%
Do not work on vacation
Work on vacation
Men
Women
74%
%
Work on vacation
23%
Work every
couple of days
21
%
Work once a day
57%
15%
Work more than
once a day
Workers access their email, apps, and files with these devices:
51
52
%
Smartphone
30
%
Personal Computer
No Access
24%
18
%
Tablet
%
Work Computer
of workers can’t access files
outside of work
How do workers access files and applications while on vacation?
23
32
%
%
Use corporate
network
Use file sharing
services
24
35%
35%
From work
computer
Of workers go on vacation
with their work computer
and all of their files.
%
Unable to access
work files
6
5
%
Don’t know
%
Other
The Zen Vacation
47%
47%
of workers are less stressed because
they can access their work files, email,
and apps while on vacation
22%
Less
stressed
22%
More
stressed
Same
stress level
Taking care of business…
Far beyond the board room
Here are just some of the places people have worked from:
36
Beach
%
31
%
Bathroom
21
%
Theme park
18
%
Sporting
event
18
%
National monument
or
historic landmark
So, how has connectivity changed
the way you “get away”?
What if your VPN had the power and reliability of
the cloud and made remote access to your files
easier and more secure than other cloud-based
file sharing services?
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service that provides instant LAN-like access to
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The survey was conducted online by Instant.ly on behalf of Pertino on June 6, 2013, among over 1000 employed Americans age 18
and older nationwide. The margin of error is 3.08 percent.