Picture this: you’re sitting by the beach, margarita in hand, about to sign off from your laptop after a hard day’s work. Sounds like a dream, right?
The 21st century has seen the rise of the digital nomad. A 2025 report from MBO Partners found that 18.5 million Americans identify as digital nomads. 1
Yet while ditching the office and your home country for good might seem like the new measure of success in 2026, the global landscape has changed. As costs rise across the world, global tensions increase, and citizens of many countries accuse digital nomads of gentrification, is the tide turning on the “permanent work-cation”?


