Fed up with spending the 9 to 5 in a stuffy office? Anna Hart packs her Mac and follows the trend for extreme remote working - in Bali
Typing these words, my forefinger sticks
sweatily to the trackpad. When I glance up from the screen, I see steam
rising from the neighbouring paddy field. As with all workplaces,
there’s a steady hum of white noise: coffee being brewed, group meetings
peppered with jargon such as “touch base”, “reach out”, “loop back” and
“incentivise”.
This is one of a rapidly increasing number of co-working spaces, where
freelancers, sole traders and small companies rent desks and share
printers and coffee machines. But even within that hip, fast-evolving
realm, Hubud is an outlier – and its 250-strong community believes that
this highly covetable office environment is the workplace of the future.
The diversity of this group also signals another change: that more and
more jobs are becoming portable, possible to do at a digital distance –
not just web designers and freelance writers but fashion designers,
photographers, models, marketers and even a remote-working GP.
As a freelance journalist, I have long been a convert to co-working spaces. I work from Netil House
in Hackney, east London, where I share a studio with a jewellery
designer, an arts curator and a photographer. Cycling to work, choosing
my working hours and studio mates, I feel like I have got it pretty
good, particularly compared to the years I spent working long,
inflexible hours in a staff job. Or I felt good until I heard about
Hubud. Because if going it alone in a co-working space is the first step
towards freedom for the growing number of frustrated, ambitious young
professionals, phase two is complete “location independence”; also known
as “digital nomadism”.
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