All-Virtual Companies Thrive With Remote Working and the Best European Countries for Digital Nomads...
Every other Friday, we are sharing updates on what new insights we’re spotting about our market ?? ??
Here’s a recap of this week’s market signals we’re reading:
Spurred by Remote Work, All-Virtual Companies Thrive via Forbes?
It is estimated that at least 16% are fully remote, and 62% of employees work remotely at least part of the time.
Leaders of what are now all-virtual companies say the forced virtualization of 2020 turned out to be a pleasant surprise for them. “Three years ago I would never have considered an all-remote workforce,” says Juli Smith, president of Smith Consulting Group. ‘We found when we were forced to switch to remote work that not only could it work, but that we could thrive as an organization.”
Are You a ‘Digital Nomad’? European Locales Want Remote Workers via the Wall Street Journal?
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Many remote workers indulged their wanderlust during the pandemic, taking their laptops and passports to far-flung destinations. Now many parts of Europe are enticing them to come stay a while longer.?
Nearly a dozen European countries, from Latvia to Croatia to Iceland, have introduced longer-term visas to attract affluent remote workers from abroad. Others, including Italy and Spain, have similar plans in the works. Many, such as Greece and Estonia, are also wooing these so-called digital nomads with tax breaks and other perks.?
?By Lucy Papachristou and Elissa Miolene?
Digital nomadism was a thing before the pandemic. But now, with the rise of remote work, the trend has blown up.
Countries in Europe are waking up to the benefits — not least the cash —? that digital nomads can bring both to cities and too sparsely populated villages, and are designing ways to make it easier for them to settle. One way is the digital nomad visa — something a host of European countries have launched in recent years.?
This article unpacks how digital nomad visas work in the European countries that offer them, and added what we know about the countries that expect to have one soon.??