The truth about working from the beach
Is 100 percent remote work really that great?
This was it.
Amir was ready to embark upon the journey of a lifetime.
After breaking up with his girlfriend, he decided to trade the comfort of a traditional job for the thrill of remote work in Taiwan.
Like many millennials, he felt disillusioned by the prospect of working for someone else in a cubicle until he was 65 years old.
Meta Wagner, Emerson College professor, wrote about this phenomenon in an opinion piece for the Boston Globe:
“When a creative writing student of mine recently acknowledged that being confined to an office cubicle was one of her greatest fears, everyone in class solemnly nodded as if it were a universal truth.”
However, young people are not alone in their dislike of the traditional 9-to-5 — they are just more vocal.
According to a 2017 Gallup poll, a stunning 85 percent of anonymous workers surveyed admit to hating their jobs. The study included participants from nearly 200 countries around the world.
