Opinion: Greece or Barbados? The fight for Covid’s WFH nomads

Working from home is one level of privilege, but being able to do so while escaping coronavirus lockdowns is another one entirely. — Pixabay

Like birds migrating south for the winter, a new species is packing up for the great trek: Work-from-homers looking for a sunny beach idyll with a good WiFi connection.

"Digital nomads,” once a label applied to iPhone-toting millennials traveling the globe, are now an entire aspirational white-collar class to themselves. Working from home is one level of privilege, but being able to do so while escaping coronavirus lockdowns is another one entirely. One British engineer captured it perfectly from a rented windmill conversion in Portugal saying, "I forgot there was a pandemic.”