Is ‘bleisure’ the future of business travel?

There are plenty of cringeworthy buzzwords for those who don’t like their working lives to be tied to one place. The hashtag-fluent millennials heading for Canggu or Chiang Mai tend to be “digital nomads”, “glomads” or even “techno-gypsies”, while the more sober prefer simply to go with “location-independent”.

Pretentious or not, these descriptions can be applied to a growing number of people. Last year 10.9m Americans described themselves as digital nomads, up 49 per cent on the previous year, according to research by workforce software business MBO Partners. Upwork, a digital platform for freelancers, claims the number of US remote workers will grow to 36.2m by 2025. As someone who recently left a one-bedroom apartment in London for a four-bedroom house on the Kent coast, this prediction doesn’t seem outlandish. A new Dachshund puppy is the…