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It was definitely a trend, fully remote companies were coming into vogue long before the epidemic.

Thank you for this.

I am actually surprised as it seemed that with IBM, Yahoo, and various other companies dragging everyone back to the office in 2017-2019 that remote work was in retreat.

I was surprised to see you downvoted. Did people forget that "digital nomad" was trending years prior to the pandemic?

> Did people forget that "digital nomad" was trending years prior to the pandemic?

Often encouraged by people selling tools, books, coaching, etc. related to the digital nomad lifestyle.

And often are self-employed/freelance

I always interpreted digital nomad to be a Tim Ferris type person working 4 hours a week and living off relatively passive income or some kind of online self employment, not employees.