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Kelly Green, 34, went to visit her parents in Tristan Da Cunha and fell in love.The island is a British Overseas Territory with 236 inhabitants, and the only way to travel there is by ship.Green got married and is happily raising her two kids on the island.This as-told-to essay is…
Lisa Kauffman was over Florida’s hurricanes and the faster pace of life in the US.In 2023, Kauffman moved to a remote Panamanian island, where she now lives off the grid.Living in Panama has been a “game changer” for Kauffman, who said she’s happier and more relaxed. This as-told-to essay is…
Mel Macintyre landed her dream job at a finance company in Edinburgh in her 30s.She became burned out, and her corporate lifestyle of “work hard, party hard” made her ill.Macintyre left the city and lives on an island in Scotland, where she’s more connected to nature. This as-told-to essay is…
Workers value remote work as much as a 7% to 8% pay increase, a new survey finds.Hybrid work is especially valued by workers in their 30s with kids and degrees.Teleworking has increased, even as firms try to pull their workers back into the office. If you’re reading this from the…
How nice would it be to leave everything behind, unplug from the world, and relax abroad?This thought lingered in Adrian Chia’s mind after a two-week family vacation exploring the Great Ocean Road in Melbourne in 2016.Shortly after returning home to Singapore, he floated the concept of living an unplugged life…
Amazon is shutting the door on remote work.In a memo to employees on Monday, CEO Andy Jassy said the company will require corporate workers to be in-office five days per week starting in January.”We’ve decided that we’re going to return to being in the office the way we were before…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has called work-from-home “morally wrong.” Musk says he works seven days a week and just takes two to three days off a year. He imposed a strict in-office policy at Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter, but there have been exceptions. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has called working…
Two months after Walmart surprised its previously remote corporate employees with a return-to-office mandate, many are in the midst of packing up for cross-country moves.While the company is maintaining two satellite campuses near New York and San Francisco, most workers are slated to relocate to the retailer’s hometown of Bentonville,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Jeffery Smith, 46, the vice president of production operations at Basis Technologies, about how working remotely impacts his family life. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Our routine was a tight, orchestrated dance. I drove the kids to…
In 2020, Lisa was making roughly $110,000 working remotely in a corporate manufacturing role, but she wasn’t satisfied with her pay.Lisa, who’s in her 40s and based in Wisconsin, landed a job offer for a hybrid role in the same industry that paid nearly $150,000 a year, she told Business…
