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Employment Agreement - McGregor Travel Management, Navigant International Inc. and Douglas R. Knight

                          AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT


     This AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (this 'Amendment') is made and 
entered into as of June ___, 1998 by and among McGregor Travel Management, 
Inc., a Connecticut corporation (the 'Assignor'), Navigant International, 
Inc., a Delaware corporation ('Assignee'), and Douglas R. Knight 
('Employee'). This Amendment will become effective on the date of the 
consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of 
Distribution by and among U.S. Office Products Company, Assignee, and 
certain other parties, to be dated as of June 9, 1998.                        

                                     RECITAL

     WHEREAS Assignor and Employee are parties to an Employment Agreement, 
dated as of October 24, 1997 (the 'Agreement'), which Assignor now desires to 
assign to Assignee and which Assignor, Assignee and Employee now desire to 
amend as set forth herein; and

     WHEREAS U.S. Office Products Company, a Delaware corporation, has 
certain rights and obligations under the Agreement, and desires to assign all 
of such rights (other than with respect to its 'Confidential Information' as 
defined in the Agreement) and obligations to Navigant International, Inc., a 
Delaware corporation, and Navigant International, Inc. desires to accept and 
assume all of such rights and obligations;

                                      AGREEMENT

     NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises herein made and 
for other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which is hereby 
acknowledged, Assignor, Assignee and Employee hereby agree as follows:

     Section 1. Assignment.  Assignor hereby assigns to Assignee all of 
Assignor's right, title and interest in and to the Agreement, and Assignee 
hereby accepts such assignment and assumes, accepts responsibility for, and 
agrees to pay, perform, and discharge all of Assignor's liabilities and 
obligations under the Agreement.  Employee hereby consents to such assignment 
and assumption.  As a result of this assignment and assumption, all of the 
rights and obligations of Assignor under the Agreement hereby become the 
rights and obligations of Assignee, and Assignor will have no further rights 
or obligations under the Agreement, and all provisions of the Agreement, 
including any accompanying Exhibits or Schedules, relating or referring to 
Assignor or the 'Company' will hereafter be deemed to relate or refer to 
Assignee.

     Section 2. Amendments.

            (a) Names.  Throughout the Agreement, including any accompanying 
Exhibits or Schedules, the words 'U.S. Office Products Company' are hereby 
deleted and replaced with the words 'Navigant International, Inc.' and the 
abbreviation 'USOP' is hereby deleted and replaced with the abbreviation 
'Navigant,' except that any reference to the agreement pursuant to which U.S. 
Office Products Company acquired its interest in Assignor will be deemed to 
refer to such agreement as the rights and obligations of U.S. Office Products 
Company thereunder have been assigned to Navigant International, Inc.

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            (b) Effect.  As a result of the amendments set forth in Section 
2(a), all of the rights and obligations of U.S. Office Products Company under 
the Agreement will become the rights and obligations of Navigant 
International, Inc., and U.S. Office Products Company will have no further 
rights or obligations under the Agreement, and all provisions of the 
Agreement, including any accompanying Exhibits or Schedules, relating or 
referring to U.S. Office Products Company, USOP, or USOP's Travel Division 
will hereafter be deemed to relate or refer to Navigant International, Inc., 
except that any reference to the agreement pursuant to which U.S. Office 
Products Company acquired its interest in Assignor will be deemed to refer to 
such agreement as the rights and obligations of U.S. Office Products Company 
thereunder have been assigned to Navigant International, Inc.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Amendment, U.S. 
Office Products Company will continue to enjoy its pre-existing third-party 
beneficiary rights under provisions of the Agreement concerning 'Confidential 
Information' (as defined in the Agreement).

            (c) Position and Duties.  Section 2 of the Agreement is hereby 
amended to delete the first sentence of such Section in its entirety and 
replace it with the following:

          'The Company hereby employs Employee as Chief Operating Officer of the
          Company.'

            (d) Notice.  The 'Notice' provision of the Agreement is hereby 
amended to delete the names and addresses of McGregor Travel Management, Inc. 
and U.S. Office Products Company and replace them with the following:

          'To the Company:    Navigant International, Inc.
                              84 Inverness Circle East
                              P.O. Box 6604
                              Englewood, CO 80155-6604
                              Attention: Chief Executive Officer

          with a copy to:     Navigant International, Inc.
                              84 Inverness Circle East
                              P.O. Box 6604
                              Englewood, CO 80155-6604
                              Attention: General Counsel'

     Section 3. Effect.  Except as specifically amended by this Amendment, 
the Agreement will remain in full force and effect.  All references to the 
'Agreement' in the Agreement will hereafter be deemed to refer to the 
Agreement as amended hereby.

     Section 4. Miscellaneous.

            (a) Definitions.  Capitalized terms used and not defined herein 
have the meanings given to such terms in the Agreement.

            (b) Counterparts.  This Amendment may be executed in one or more 
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original but all of which 
together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

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            (c) Governing Law.  This Amendment will be governed by the 
Governing Law provision contained in the Agreement.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Assignor, the Assignee and Employee have 
executed this Amendment as of the date first above written.

ASSIGNOR                                 EMPLOYEE

MCGREGOR TRAVEL MANAGEMENT, INC.


By:____________________________          ___________________________
     Salvatore A. DeFranco                  Douglas R. Knight 
     President



ASSIGNEE

NAVIGANT INTERNATIONAL, INC.


By:_____________________________
     Edward S. Adams
     President & Chief Executive Officer 





Acknowledged and agreed:

U.S. OFFICE PRODUCTS COMPANY



By:______________________________
     Mark D. Director
     Executive Vice President -
     Administration


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