Remote Work Europe

Hello from Remote Work Europe, New figures from Eurofound have put a number on something a lot of remote workers feel in their bones: the workday that never quite ends. Around 1 in 5 workers across the EU are contacted outside their working hours – and among remote workers, it's closer to 63%. It's part of why the right to disconnect is now law or policy in 13 member states. But the always-on trap isn't only a boundaries problem. A lot of what keeps people saying "yes" at 9pm is the fear of...

Hola from Remote Work Europe, This is not the summer digest I planned to write. As I type, Spain is living through its first-ever national wildfire emergency, with fires burning across several regions and tens of thousands of people evacuated from their homes. If you are one of them, or you are somewhere the smoke has reached, I am thinking of you, and I hope this finds you safe. So this week is mostly practical: the numbers and tools worth having on your phone before you need them, a word on...

Hello, You may have noticed us talking about AI more than we used to. Maya especially, across her work here and through her other venture. Some of you have written back, more or less asking the fair question: why are you suddenly talking to me about AI? Here's the honest answer. It stopped being a specialist topic. The same thing happened with email, then with Slack, then with video calls; each one arrived looking like a tech expert's concern and then, within a couple of years, became simply...

Hello, Here's a fact that is really not fun to hear when you are looking for remote work: a single advertised remote role in Europe can pull hundreds of applications within a day. By the time you are filling in the form, you are already one of a crowd. So the people who actually get these roles tend to do something different. They get found. Maya has just published a new guide on exactly that – how to use LinkedIn to find remote work in 2026 – and it is less about polishing your CV than about...

Hello, Over a year ago, Christoph from Nomad Summit sat down with Maya at another conference and asked her what a collaboration between the two might look like. Maya had one answer, and it was the same answer she has been giving to anyone who has asked over the last decade of building Remote Work Europe. Anything they built together would have to be about the WORK. There are already plenty of events about the lifestyle. The beaches, the coliving spaces, the airline miles, the coffee shops....

Hola from Remote Work Europe, The last fortnight of remote-work headlines has read like a funeral. Revolut confirmed graduate hires from 2027 will need to be in the office three days a week, walking back the "remote-first" contract that helped build the brand. Airbus escalated its own telework dispute on Monday, with a rally at Blagnac and management authorising disciplinary sanctions against employees refusing to comply with the new one-day rule from September. The 2024 agreement runs...

Hello, Ten years ago this week, the UK voted to leave the European Union. The result landed in the early hours of 24 June 2016, and most of us who were already in remote work back then remember exactly where we were when the news broke. The decade since has reshaped two things at once: how Europeans move and work across borders, and the climate they do it in. The Brexit half of that story we covered earlier this month, with Maya's ten-years-on assessment of what life is actually like for UK...