Digital nomads still going strong

In 2021, during the pandemic, we wrote that a growing group of people was taking working away from the office a step further: they were working from anywhere. Thanks to the internet, digital nomads can work fully remotely, and they regularly move around between places like Bali, Tulum and Costa Rica. Despite the pandemic being behind us, the number of digital nomads seemingly continues to grow.

Subreddit r/digitalnomad is a popular social media meeting place for digital nomads and has doubled its number of members from one million in 2021 to almost two million now. Thousands of years ago, before the agricultural revolution, leading a nomadic lifestyle around in search of food was the norm. Nowadays technologies such as video conferencing and collaboration software enable all of us to revisit the nomadic lifestyle again, also in a search for freedom instead of just out of necessity or tradition.