Your mental health affects your success at work, and stress and burnout can be caused by numerous things including increasing workloads, rapid technological change, changing market demands, lack of work-life balance, and business travel.

Business travel can have a significant impact on mental health, especially if it is frequent or unpredictable. Employees who travel for business may experience jet lag, fatigue, disrupted sleep patterns, social isolation, difficulty maintaining a work-life balance, and stress from meeting deadlines and dealing with unexpected problems. The stress and unpredictability of recent geopolitical events has added to this.

A recent survey by Opinium on behalf of World Travel Protection found that the most common mental health implications of business travel are exhaustion (26 per cent), stress (19 per cent), homesickness (16 per cent), and anxiety (22 per cent).