n. A vacation where a significant amount of time is spent reading email and performing other work-related tasks.
2011
While the ability to access work e-mail on the go has helped to improve office productivity, it also comes with its disadvantages, namely, the rise of the fake-ation.
2010
Forget about staycations. They're so 2008. The new trend for 2010 is the fake-ation. As an avid fake-ationer myself, I had mixed feelings about seeing the results of the latest traveler survey from Newton-based TripAdvisor….The survey, which polled more than 3,000 people who use TripAdvisor, also shows 62 percent check their work e-mail while on vacations and 13 percent call the office to check in.
2009 (earliest)
Instead of taking a vacation, I take a facation. You know what I mean, don't you? It's a fake vacation. You stay connected and though you're not in the office, you still do all the things you'd normally do if you were at your desk and in your office.
As vacation time looms, are you bummed about the high cost of gasoline and the expense of cottage rentals and hotels?…Ah, a solution is at hand — take a synthetic vacation that makes you look as though you went somewhere.