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Governments across Asia are mandating flexible work to survive an energy crisis. For years, the argument for remote work rested on productivity studies, talent retention data, and employee wellbeing surveys. Then a pandemic made the case more forcefully than any whitepaper ever could. Now, a war in the Middle East is making it again —
On a humid morning in San José, a line of young professionals winds through the immigration office. Laptops in their backpacks, contracts in their inboxes, they are not tourists or expatriates in the old sense. They are digital nomads, and Costa Rica is welcoming them with open arms — and a zero percent tax rate.
When the global shutdown forced knowledge workers into their kitchens, bedrooms, and makeshift home offices, many believed a permanent shift was underway. The idea that high-paying professional roles could be performed remotely—and done so effectively—was no longer theoretical. It was daily reality. For a moment, the office felt like an artifact of a pre-pandemic world.
