I never fully got how people actually got work done, at least not at the level of intensity and hours needed for an early stage startup, while working out of a coffee shop on a small laptop on crappy internet across the globe. Sure maybe if you're running a dropshipping company of one or doing a crypto rugpull, but if you have to build a product, sell, get on calls with customers, coordinate and motivate a team, hire.. etc. how do you do all of that from a small coffee shop in Indonesia or from your hostel?

It feels like a LARP at best.

My company allows short-term work from anywhere. I have taken advantage of it twice now, and I'm currently packing my bags for a third. Each trip one full month in another country.

As long as my company has this policy I will be at my company. This policy is amazing. Full stop. I thought I needed a sabbatical, I actually just needed this.

I feel just as a productive if not more productive while on these work-cations. I come back energized about life and my job.

I went almost 7 years without having a vacation where I returning thinking "wow, i feel refreshed and I want to go home". These trips actually, finally, solved this. I'm no longer feeling burnt out and that is incredible.

So, if any employers are reading this.. take note.

The page keeps crashing for me.

Besides economic pressures, I think that it's hard to be productive while on the move. Accomodation with a good desk and fast internet are rare. Good internet cafes are also rare. Taking calls in public is not nice.

I am not constrained by location, but home is where my monitor is.