"Digital Nomads"

With various advancements in technology, digital nomads can now make any part of the world their office.

20:55 09 June 2016

More and more digital nomads are now taking advantage of technology to combine work and lifestyle. The Surf Office is one of the companies that aim to address their needs, providing workspace and accommodation in places like Lisbon and Gran Canaria combined with afternoon surf trips and lessons.

 

For £47 a night, digital nomads can get private room, shared kitchen and bathroom plus access to modern office facilities and meeting rooms.

 

Peter Fabor from Surf Office says: "Our clients include both freelancers and employees who can work remotely. The way things are going, I think working this way will become the norm within the next five years."

 

A new start-up, Roam, whose co-living, co-working locations include Bali and Miami, promotes itself as “an experimental community testing the boundaries between work, travel and life.”

 

Working remotely is an established trend in the United Kingdom with more than four million Britons already working from home. Many of them work via fully connected virtual offices, which means less overhead cost for employers and freedom for employees.

 

Donna Sewell, founder of law firm Legal Edge, is convinced of the benefits.

 

"We've never had large offices," she says. "In fact, in the last 12 months we have halved what office space we did have to a modest two-desk room for a team of 15 lawyers.

 

"We can provide a better service using cloud-collaborative working tools such as Google's corporate suite and Google doc."