In 2022, the number of business trips for Russian companies will increase by at least 20%. This forecast was given to Izvestia by analysts of the Skolkovo resident, the Smartway service, on Tuesday, January 25.
The most popular destinations for business trips will be Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novy Urengoy. The analytics is based on data of clients of service, added in the companies.
Last year, the number of business trips for service customers increased by 160% compared to 2020. The average check for one trip amounted to 7.1 thousand rubles.
In 2021, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Tyumen and Nizhny Novgorod were also in demand for business trips. October was the most popular month for business trips, and January was the least popular, analysts said.
The company also said that most often the need for business trips arises from construction companies that send employees on shifts, as well as from trading companies. In second place are manufacturing companies, in third place are organizations servicing oil rigs.
Smartway Development Director Ilya Vagner noted that, despite the pandemic and the development of trends for remote work, business trips remain an indispensable attribute of large business.
“We can talk endlessly about the transition to remote work, but current realities and numbers show that business needs face-to-face meetings. The Russian economy is primarily built on mining and heavy industry, and I have little idea of debugging a machine tool or building a compressor station via Skype,” he said.
Kirill Kulakov, President of the self-regulating organization “Regional Association of Appraisers” (SRO RAO), said that, for example, large federal-scale appraisal companies are involved in the evaluation of large investment projects. It is impossible to carry out an examination without going to the place, he added.
On January 17, OZON TRAVEL announced which cities Russians travel to on official business and which ones they would like to go to. Approximately every 10th respondent would like to go on a business trip to Crimea, Baikal or Altai, another 7% would like to go to Sochi or Karelia. Every fifth person surveyed would prefer a trip to New Zealand. The leader of the survey was Antarctica, where 64% of respondents would go.
Residents of Novosibirsk became leaders in the number of business trips: 22% of citizens travel for work more than once a month. In second place in this indicator are residents of Kazan (20%), followed by Yekaterinburg residents (19%), Chelyabinsk residents (17%), Volgograd and Perm residents (14% each).
Most often, employees are sent on business trips to Moscow and St. Petersburg (27% each), Kazan (21%), Yekaterinburg (18%), Novosibirsk and Nizhny Novgorod (16% each), and Chelyabinsk (13% each). %).
Source: IZ
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