Re:Co-Working on Vacation: A Desk in Paradise
by AlexeyMK on Tuesday January 20, 2015 @12:30PM
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Howdy! HackerParadise organizer here.
Shameless plug: we're doing a trip with 4 weeks each in Da Nang, Vietnam, Bali and Chiang Mai, Thailand starting February 15th and still have a few spots left. If you're thinking of trying out the workaway lifestyle, check us out (we handle the hotel + co-working space with good Wi-Fi, snacks & coffee, etc + the trip is full of hand-picked, interesting people).
More broadly about the 'burgeoning industry' - from having interviewed hundreds of applicants at this point, I don't think the growing trend is developers going totally nomadic. There's some of that, but then there's also "I want to get the @%^! out of NYC/Berlin during the winter," or "I want to take a month off and see how I could work from here". My feeling is it's a lot more fun to take a month-long workaway than a weeklong vacation, simply because you don't have to be a tourist at the speed of light (just use the weekends to explore) and you get a much more authentic experience of the place you visit while avoiding the guilt of not being productive while the rest of your team is working hard.
Shameless plug: we're doing a trip with 4 weeks each in Da Nang, Vietnam, Bali and Chiang Mai, Thailand starting February 15th and still have a few spots left. If you're thinking of trying out the workaway lifestyle, check us out (we handle the hotel + co-working space with good Wi-Fi, snacks & coffee, etc + the trip is full of hand-picked, interesting people).
More broadly about the 'burgeoning industry' - from having interviewed hundreds of applicants at this point, I don't think the growing trend is developers going totally nomadic. There's some of that, but then there's also "I want to get the @%^! out of NYC/Berlin during the winter," or "I want to take a month off and see how I could work from here". My feeling is it's a lot more fun to take a month-long workaway than a weeklong vacation, simply because you don't have to be a tourist at the speed of light (just use the weekends to explore) and you get a much more authentic experience of the place you visit while avoiding the guilt of not being productive while the rest of your team is working hard.