In June 2023, the town of Ollolai, in Sardinia, announced that it had recruited ten professionals from the United States to come and live in their municipality for as long as they wanted. They have been offered houses at a rental fee of just €1 per month, and in...
Pre-pandemic, people generally agreed that there were three types of digital nomads, based on how they earn income. But new research, focused on American workers, conducted by anthropologist Dave Cook and recently published a study in the World Leisure Journal,...
Is remote work really that good for employees? What about companies? Do companies benefit from remote work? And can remote work affect your chances of getting a promotion? To find the answers to all these questions, we talked to Darcy Marie Boles, a remote work...
The State of Remote Work report has been collecting, analyzing, and reporting on the experiences of thousands of remote workers since 2017. Working with Buffer, Remote OK, and Nomad List, this report aims to learn the nitty-gritty details about remote work career...
The term “hush trip” is the latest jargon to appear in the remote working sector. Similar to a “workation” or “bleisure”, a hush trip is when you travel when working and specifically choose not to disclose this information to your employer. How exactly might this...
“Remote work is not about giving your employees a laptop and telling them you can go work from anywhere”. These were the words of Nadia Harris, founder of RemoteWorkAdvocate.com, the go-to place for companies and individuals who want to thrive in the flexible work...
Unsurprisingly, the pandemic pushed remote work to the forefront of employment. Before September 2020, only 16% of people had the luxury of working from home. By September, 72% of people went remote, with 34% expecting to remain remote permanently. Most of us can...
Many companies that have tested the waters with remote work through hybrid working models are now contemplating transitioning their hybrid teams to fully remote teams. While that may seem like a relatively straightforward move, it requires lots of good planning to...
There are many reasons why companies choose to monitor their remote staffs’ productivity. Remote work monitoring may emanate from a concern about what staff are doing during the day when they’re not in the office. While it may be tempting to institute rigorous...
How people work has changed rapidly over the last few years, and nothing has changed as quite as dramatically as where people need to work. When it comes to improving the employee experience workplace mobility is the undeniable future, and savvy employers are hiring...
