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Aside from missing their families and home, Indian business travellers reveal that they are very much attached to their home cooking, finds the latest survey by Regus, the global flexible workplace provider.
Home cooking (48%) is among the top three things Indians miss when travelling for work, outranking speaking in their own language.
When travelling abroad for business, respondents globally reported that after family (68%) and their home (38%), they are most likely to be hit by a bout of nostalgia over home cooking (25%), rather than savouring the delights of a foreign cuisine. One in five respondents (17%) also longed to speak in their own language, highlighting that some home-comforts really are irreplaceable in making people feel they belong.
With respect to India, respondents were more likely to miss their home (42%) than the global average of 38%. Further, the survey said that Indians were also more likely to feel put-out by missing their local weather (14%) than average (8%).
The survey also said that in India, a fifth of respondents (22%) are less willing than they were ten years ago to separate from their home comforts and travel for business.
Sahil Verma, Chief Operating Officer - India, Regus said, "Face-to-face meetings have often been a key part of business as people need to see the expressions and body language of those they are talking to, but workers also find that over the years their priorities change. New technologies that allow workers to hold video conferences are becoming more and more common and employees are rightly starting to demand that these be offered as an alternative to travel."
