Staff blog

Travel a lot for work can be harmful for your health

Topics: Health
Published on: 25/09/2018
travel for work

For many can be the dreamt work, but to travel in a regular way for work can have consequences in your health. All associate a trip to which know such as holidays, however, to do it for work does not influence in the same way in our health.

If your work requires to carry out many professional trips will have more probability of having health problems because of changes in your healthy habits everyday, in your sleep cycles and in the lack of healthy activities that are accustomed to carry out in your everyday life.

When we travel for pleasure also notice certain changes in our habits, but our mind is relaxed enough as lest they affect us negatively.

When to organise a business journey, many health programmes of the companies manage vaccinations, the information on how to avoid food and alerts indispositions on civil disturbances and politicians.

But they often leave aside a more common threat for the health: the stress, the alteration of the dream, the diet little healthy one and the lack of exercise, that are common side effects of being in a business trip. Long-term, these problems can sum to risks of chronic diseases.

It tries to maintain your habits

Will need to have a lot of willpower, but one of our recommendations is to prevent all the excesses that they can affect to your health. It tries to maintain an order in your diet and it enjoys a healthy diet. In addition, tries to sleep corresponding hours. In this way will produce more in your business trips. Another important aspect is to practice a bit of activity every day of your placement; salt to be run, do basic exercises in your hotel room, salt to be strolled after the work…

On the other hand, is obligation of the company to try that your trip the maximum thing is adjusted to your comforts. Hours of the flights, the hotel in which accommodate you, your meetings' schedule in the trip… Are aspects that it must take into account for a good prevention and thus to avoid great problems which consequently it concerns to its workers' health.