What is a workation?

A workation is a trip that combines remote work with extended-stay travel — usually a one-to-four-week window in a destination where the laptop comes along for half the day and the other half is reserved for leisure. The format took off in 2020 during the WFH expansion and stuck: a 2024 Airbnb report showed 24% of long-stay bookings (28+ nights) were classified as workation by the guest. Reliable Wi-Fi is the gating constraint. Time zones come second; the East Coast US works smoothly from the Caribbean, where Atlantic Standard Time tracks Eastern Daylight. Yacht-based workations are trickier — Starlink Maritime now gives 200+ Mbps at anchor, but a moving passage day still drops the signal — so most yacht workations combine three at-anchor work days with two passage/leisure days. Caribbean workation framing sits in the 2026 trend roundup.