From smartphones to Netflix, the digital world isn’t exactly new. But it is changing, maybe faster than we sometimes realize. And an incredible and still emerging aspect to this digital world involves the way we work. You’ve likely heard of the team “digital nomad” before, since it’s rising in popularity. It refers to a new, traveling workforce that relies on not much more than their laptops and WiFi for their income.
A few short years ago, being a digital nomad was not much more than a far-fetched dream for most. But that is changing rapidly, as more and more people ditch their desk jobs and take up this remote lifestyle. Get this: the number of digital nomads more than doubled over the past couple years, from 4.8 million in 2018 to 10.9 million in 2020.
If it’s any indicator of the changing trends, even the dictionary is on board. Miriam Webster added “Digital Nomad” to the dictionary just this past year.