A New-Ish Work Moral Panic: “The Hush Trip”

Who cares where you are if the work is getting done?

I think I can keep this one pretty short, actually.

About eight-nine months ago, there started to be more attention to “the hush trip” in “zany” CNBC segments and business journalism. A “hush trip” is where you’re based in Denver or somewhere, but go to Hawaii for three weeks and work from there without telling anyone you work with. You just hop on calls from the beach or whatever. Or you go to Europe. The principle is: “I went somewhere else and didn’t tell my bosses.”

This shouldn’t matter, of course. What should matter is whether the work you are assigned to do is getting done. If that’s happening, I don’t care if you’re in Iceland or Ithaca. But of course, some bosses do.

This article claims it’s creating additional stress, burnout, and lack of trust within HR teams:

Trust breakdown: Employees keeping HR teams in the dark about their whereabouts

I could see that, but my follow-up questions would be:

1. Who exactly trusts HR teams?