During the height of the pandemic, millions of employees discovered the advantages of remote work, and began to think that perhaps the pandemic had paved the way for them to dream of working from a Caribbean island. “Suddenly, we visualized ourselves as those privileged people who come out in Españoles por el mundo, attacking a mojito crowned with an absurd umbrella at four in the afternoon,” says Pablo Foncillas.
The reality is that “for the majority, this is not going to be possible,” says the management expert. And he argues that working from the beach or another vacation destination has several drawbacks. For example, the problems that can often occur in remote places with the Wi-Fi connection or the lack of technical services to solve problems with the computer.
To this is added, among other important aspects, all the bureaucracy involved in changing the country -such as visas and taxes- and, in the case of having children, the limited supply of schools that may exist in the destination. “It was a beautiful dream, but the awakening of Covid has brought us back to reality,” she concludes.
