HOW TO WORK LIKE A DIGITAL NOMAD

If you’re tempted by the possibility of escaping the office with just a laptop in hand, here are some resources to get you started.

CO- WORKING ABROAD

SunDesk (sun-desk.com; day passes from $12), a co-working space on a surf beach near Marrakesh, has high-speed Internet—even on the roof terrace. WORK Saigon (worksaigon.com; from $118 a month) has single-origin Vietnamese coffee and regular community barbecues. Nest (coworkingnest.com.mx;

from $20 a day to $99 a week), in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, has a rooftop pool and is pet-friendly. Hubud (hubud.org; from $33 a day to $364 a month) in Ubud, Bali, has Skype booths, business coaches and courses like “Become a

Freelancing Ninja!”

CO- WORKING CLOSER TO HOME

WORKATION RETREATS

The Surf Office (thesurf office.com; from $90 a day for a single room) in Gran

Canaria, Spain; Lisbon, Portugal; and Santa Cruz, Calif., offers accommodation, co-working spaces and or

ganized social events.

Mutinerie Village

(mutinerie.org/village-home page; from $300 a week for

a shared dorm) is a coworking space in a restored

farmhouse near Paris. Coworking Camp (cowork ing.camp; from $376 a week not including accommodation) is a beachside winter pop-up in Djerba, Tunisia.

(coconat-space. com, from $53 a night) is a

retreat just outside Berlin with both indoor and outdoor desks and tents and cabins in the woods for sleeping. Webworktravel.com offers

information on the best workation destinations, from

Cape Town to Cusco. In November, the site is running its first-ever “digital nomad cruise,” from Spain to Brazil ($355 for nine days—a bargain because the ship is repositioning; Wi-Fi is extra and expensive).

CONFERENCES DNX Global (dnxglobal. com; tickets start at $295), a massive biannual conference most recently hosted

in Berlin, brings together thousands of digital nomads hoping to network and hear speeches like “Redesign your life: How I created my dream job in less than a year.” The Global Coworking Unconference Conference (gcuc.co) hosts co-working events around the world, from Toronto to São Paulo, to discuss everything from work trends to productivityenhancing furniture design.

ONLINE RESOURCES

#nomads (hashtag nomads.com) offers wellrounded crowd-sourced information for location-independent workers—everything from remote-job-search tips to affordable places to stay.

Nomad List (nomadlist. com) provides forums, destination guides and a handy filtering tool for finding your next home. Technomades (technomades.com), for digital nomads looking for co-working spaces, lodging and community en français, is currently

under development.