When working remotely becomes a nightmare

With a laptop by the pool

Vacation and work at the same time looks tempting, but it’s uncomfortable and too hot.

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Dusseldorf Patrick Mester has his laptop on the dining room table and is video chatting with a customer. It’s 35 degrees outside and the sun is heating up the terrace. Out of the corner of his eye he sees a light blue pool, colorful air mattresses and beach balls and his five friends in swimming trunks. They laugh and have fun. Later, one of them sneers at Mester: “Shit if you have to work on vacation.”

“I was very jealous, but still had a few appointments that day,” the product manager from Hamburg remembers his work in July, for a week in a finca on Mallorca. His best friend was on their honeymoon, a week later all their friends joined. A holiday together – just not for Mester.

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