The Memo: Summer’s over, workcations aren’t

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It used to be that vacation meant logging off, ignoring your emails, and telling people you’d get back to them in a week.

But that’s changed for some remote workers, who are increasingly traveling for “workcations.”

Instead of spending a long weekend in a city, they might spend a week or two abroad, working from a new destination and exploring it on nights and weekends.

But where’s the best place to go on a “workcation”?

The International Workplace Group made a list of the 10 best cities in 2024 for a workcation, measuring factors such as climate, culture, food prices, happiness, access to Wi-Fi, and availability of flexible workspaces. The WeWork rival has long operated flexible workspaces under the name Regus.

The results might surprise you. Take a look at the top 10 destinations.

Labor unions are putting in the work

Some 70% of Americans now approve of labor unions, up from 67% in 2023. This marks the second-highest approval rating for unions in almost 60 years, according to a recent Gallup poll; the only year during this timeframe with a higher approval rating was 2022, when support reached 71%.

But unions haven’t been able to directly translate that support into growing membership; just 1 in 10 workers are members of labor unions, even as more get organized each year. According to a new report from CUNY’s School of Labor and Urban Studies, that’s because much of the recent growth has come from unions at small workplaces, such as Starbucks stores that pop up all over suburbs and major cities.

But where are labor unions most concentrated? Quartz’s Will Gavin takes a look.

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Send questions, comments, and workcation tips to talk@qz.com. This edition of The Memo was written by Ben Kesslen, Will Gavin, and Morgan Haefner.