{"id":3815,"date":"2009-07-09T08:27:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T12:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2009\/07\/the-effective-workation.html"},"modified":"2009-07-09T08:27:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T12:27:01","slug":"the-effective-workation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2009\/07\/the-effective-workation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Effective Workation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last two vacations have been workations. I went to Florida in July 2008 and extended my time there by three days by bringing work with me to do a couple rainy days. This past week, I did the same thing for my trip to Alaska. 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