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An important lesson we've learned over the last few years is
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that most work doesn't need to be tethered to a physical office.
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Upwards of one-fifth of the world's companies are now fully remote, and more professionals are choosing to work away from the office.
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The increase in the number of remote workers following the COVID-19 pandemic indicates a new normal.
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This new normal provides many workers and their families unique opportunities to work where they want, travel when they want, and often combine the two.
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For example, the surge in remote work is seen in how Airbnb guests now use the platform.
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Many guests choose to live and work away from home for extended periods of time, and long-term stays of 28 days or more continue to be Airbnb's fastest-growing category.
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One in five nights booked in 2022 were for stays of a month or longer, and nearly 175,000 guests booked stays lasting 90 days or longer.
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Consider the experience of my friend Jerry, who works as an investment manager.
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Before the pandemic, I couldn't travel for long
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because I always had to be back home in Wisconsin to meet with my clients in person.
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After the pandemic, however, everyone has become comfortable with Zoom meetings and meeting online.
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This has opened the opportunity to live in southern France with my family for a month at a time.
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If I've got good Wi-Fi and a quiet place to talk with my clients, I can live and work from anywhere.
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These opportunities don't just apply to established professionals.
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Consider the experience of Anya, a young photographer and social media dilettante I met in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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I'm thinking of moving to Turkey, and then Japan, to work for six months at a time.
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I've always wanted to experience these cultures, and because I freelance online, I can work from anywhere.
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Anya and Jerry are classic examples of what are becoming popularly known as digital nomads, or people who work almost entirely over the internet while traveling.
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Digital nomads don't always have to be away from home or the office, but their jobs offer the flexibility to work remotely and experience new cultures while doing so.
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Some live, travel, and work for a month during the summer, while others are constantly on the move, taking all their worldly possessions with them.
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Life as a digital nomad is not as easy or glamorous as it sounds.
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Consider one nomad who works for a Silicon Valley tech company based in San Francisco.
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Most of the time, it's a lot of fun.
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You make new friends, experience new cultures, and break out of the usual monotony of daily routines.
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However, there are plenty of moments when you just want to pack up and go home.
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You get lonely for family and friends and stability.
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Research shows that the number one reason digital nomads return home is because of loneliness.
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When you're on the road all the time, you begin to question your purpose, stated a Spaniard living in Georgia in Eastern Europe.
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Getting back to base on a regular basis is nice and helps ground you in what really matters.
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As if loneliness and lack of stability weren't enough, Killjoy bosses and their friends in HR make it more difficult to be a digital nomad.
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I spoke to an HR manager at Allianz in Munich, Germany who said, We all want to live and work abroad,
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but the potential legal and cybersecurity liabilities can be stifling.
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Right now, we allow all our people to be digital nomads for one month a year, and we need to approve the country they are living in,
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as some countries present significant cybersecurity risks for our business.
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The month-long limitation is because of employment tax issues.
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After purchasing Twitter, billionaire Elon Musk removed the company's previous
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work-from-home-forever policy and required Twitter employees to work 40 hours per week in the office unless they were making an excellent contribution.
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In an email to managers, Musk stated, it is expected that you have in-person meetings with your colleagues on a reasonable cadence,
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ideally weekly, but not less than once per month.
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Even Airbnb, with a multi-billion-dollar market that has helped make life as a digital nomad possible,
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must cull its own employees by keeping roughly two dozen countries off-limits
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and limiting employees' foreign stays to no more than three months per year.
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Turns out that it is difficult for companies to allow digital nomads.
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For example, rules for business registrations, payroll and income taxes, and workers' compensation insurance vary from state to state in the U.S.
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Moreover, it's difficult to keep data secure when you don't know where it resides.
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These legal and security challenges make it difficult for companies to allow digital nomads.
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Despite these challenges, digital nomads may be a tremendous benefit for companies that traditionally struggle to attract direct foreign investment.
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Digital nomads tend to flock to lower-cost countries with fewer formal institutions that attract companies.
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Such lack of formal institutions offers an element of excitement, adventure, and lower cost of living Moreover,
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digital nomads are introduced to new and innovative ideas
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because they spend a portion of work time outside the company
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For more information on how digital nomads might be the answer to your country and company problems Watch our follow-up video entitled,
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How Digital Nomads Might Be the Answer to Your Country and Company's Problems Thank you.
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真實場景：數字遊民的生活百態
影片裡講述了疫情後越來越多人成為“數字遊民”的現象——有人像Jerry一樣在法國遠端工作，有人像Anya一樣邊旅行邊接單，但也有人因孤獨或公司限制被迫結束這種生活。這個場景很適合雅思口語練習，因為它涵蓋了工作、生活、挑戰等高頻話題，能幫你積累豐富表達。
實用短語&搭配，必學！
- tethered to a physical office：被束縛在實體辦公室（描述工作模式的經典表達）
- break out of the usual monotony：打破常規的單調（形容生活變化，口語加分）
- killjoy bosses：掃興的老闆（生動俚語，讓表達更自然）
- cull its own employees：限制員工（職場相關的實用搭配）
- ground you in what really matters：讓你明白什麼才重要（抽象表達，提升口語深度）
你的影子跟讀挑戰
想要提高英語發音，現在就用這個影片做shadowing練習吧！開啟影片，找到講述“數字遊民孤獨感”的部分（大約從“生活並不像聽起來那麼輕鬆”開始），先聽3遍，注意說話人的語氣變化——提到“新朋友”時的興奮，說到“想家”時的低落。然後跟著原音逐句跟讀，模仿重音和節奏，就像在和對方對話一樣。完成後，用手機錄下自己的版本，對比哪裡發音不夠地道。如果覺得困難，可以找個shadowing site，用shadowspeaks或shadow speech功能反覆練習。這個方法不僅能練口語，還超適合雅思口語練習哦！
影片中的語法
說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：
| 結構 | 影片中的用法 |
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| 現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事 | we've learned · has become · has opened |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | be tethered · is seen · is expected |
什麼是跟讀法？
跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。