🧑‍💻 NYC is officially anti-remote work

Hey, remote work fam! This is Remote Insider your favorite spot to get up to speed on what's going on in the world of remote work and digital nomadism. In this email, we talk about...

• Mayor of NYC denounces remote work

• Dubai is doubling down on becoming a remote work hub

• What €250 in rent can get you in Bansko, Bulgaria

But first, if you’re enjoying working from home but want to take work on the road and travel more, here is how to convince your boss to let you WFA…

🗺️ How to convince your boss to let you work from anywhere

Many of us are already working remotely from home, but what if you want to take your work on the road and become a full-on digital nomad? Here are a few tips to help with your conversation with your boss:

1. Be proactively productive: The easiest way to get your boss friendly to the idea of working from anywhere is to prove that you are already being productive from home. If you’re struggling to get things done from home, it will be much harder while traveling

2. Have an answer for time zone differences: Do you plan on working in a US time zone no matter where you are? Is your job already pretty async? Will you make sure you always have at least a few hours of overlap? Have an answer to this because your boss will 1000% ask.

3. Research tax issues: Look into what sort of tax compliance issues might come along with your travels and have a plan for how to keep the company safe

4. Sell it as a trial: It will be easier for your boss to say yes if they see this as a reversible decision. Sure your end goal might be to become a full-time digital nomad and never look back, but just don’t tell your boss that yet. Instead, sell it as a 6-month trial at the end of which you will reassess the situation and come back if it’s not working

5. Highlight the long-term benefits: If you can work from anywhere then the company can hire from anywhere getting the best talent and likely saving money, so highlight how your experiment could become a benefit to the rest of the company!

The name of the game is making it easy for your boss to say YES and if you can do that then you may very well find yourself with a one-way ticket to Thailand in no time!

🗽 Mayor of NYC denounces remote work, says you can’t stay in your pajamas all day

NYC’s mayor Eric Adams is urging New Yorkers to return to the office and abandon remote work which he believes is having a negative impact on the city’s economy and the lively hood of low-income workers.

During his statement last week, he listed a few more reasons he’s anti-remote:

• deprives businesses of revenue (assuming businesses that serve office workers)

• remote work creates inequality for workers

• the financial ecosystem needs human interaction to function

There is one thing he’s definitely not wrong about, remote work is greatly impacting NYC. A recent report found that last year NYC lost $12 billion in revenue due to remote work, so our guess is that Mayor Adams is desperate to bring some of that money back to the city…

Even if his arguments are very uninformed.

While remote work is having a negative impact on some businesses that rely on office workers like lunch restaurants, it’s having a positive impact on many others. With all tech innovations, some businesses lose out while others prosper, it’s all about innovating and staying current.

As far as remote working promoting inequality, a record number of workers with disabilities would beg to differ.

Finally, remote work doesn’t mean no more human interaction, to the contrary remote work promotes better work-life balance so people can spend more time together outside of work enjoying the city they live in and what it has to offer.

NYC shouldn’t be fighting against innovation, instead, the city’s leadership needs to embrace the changing world and help the city to upgrade its economy for the future.

🚨Word on The Web is…

👩‍💻 Nomad Moms: 17 digital nomad moms started remote businesses to travel the world and just wrote a book about it

🇺🇦 Ukraine: Tech CEO reflects on remote work after a year of war in Ukraine

📆 Bernie’s 4DWW: Bernie Sanders supports a 4-day workweek. Here’s what happened at companies that tried it

🇦🇪 Dubai: The UAE city is doubling down on its plan to become a remote work hub

🏠 Bansko Househunting: Here’s what €250 can get you in the Bulgarian mountain town

We all do it, don’t pretend like you don’t!

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⭐ Senior Python Developer @ CloudLinux

⭐ Freelance Writer @ Island Innovation

⭐ Senior Software Engineer @ Wikimedia Enterprise

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