I LOVE the perks of international business travel as much as the next corporate road warrior.
A new study confirms what many corporate road warriors already know: Frequent business travel takes a toll on one's health.
Extreme telecommuters are not bleary-eyed corporate road warriors nor are they garden-variety telecommuters who work from home.
Corporate road warriors, meanwhile, exude pride as they whip ultrathin computers with exotic finishes out of their satchels.
Only in his final chapter, "The New Breed," does he catch up with some who took the corporate road, not the entrepreneurial one.
The recovery which started in America in January fizzled out in the early summer, as business travel remained depressed and many corporate "road warriors" were told to fly low-cost or not at all.
The two big carriers would use the shuttles to try to win the loyalty of corporate road warriors who would then also fly the carriers more frequently on longer trips.
This is only slightly above its market value just before the bid, and a massive comedown from the $83 billion the company was worth in its heyday in 2008.Companies that still insist their employees use BlackBerry devices, and the corporate road warriors who gossip about them on sites such as crackberry.com, are debating what this bid means for the future of the firm.
"It's still the most ubiquitous offering that's out there," says Ken Denman, the boss of iPass, a firm that provides dial-up and Wi-Fi links for millions of corporate road warriors.The high-pitched shrieking of dial-up modems, once the herald of a new digital age, now increasingly evokes a bygone era.
Although it still boasts a loyal core of millions of corporate road warriors, text-happy youths and other customers who boast of their infatuation on sites like crackberry.com, its sales have been battered by competition from sleek phones using Apple's iOS and Google's Android operating systems.
But unlike some other recent perks for corporate road warriors -- like expanded first-class sections or the installation of double beds on overnight flights -- much of the new technology will eventually be available for all passengers to use, industry experts said.
