It’s kind of the dream: to live abroad and keep your job. The pandemic has ushered in a new workplace standard, which is that the workplace is no longer standard. As reported by Thrillist, a whopping 97 percent of surveyed people who are working remotely want to continue the practice. And since we’re logging in remotely, why not log in from a bucket list destination?
Luckily, Virtual College, a digital learning platform, has put together a list that ranks international cities by their number of remote and hybrid jobs, with hybrid work meaning that you could show up a few days a week for office-based solidarity, then work remotely the rest of the time. The methodology? Virtual College scanned LinkedIn job postings to find the cities with the highest percentage of remote and hybrid jobs.
Now, if you crave a European-style hometown but haven't refreshed your passport, maybe you can trick yourself by living in one of these American cities that feel European. After all, in the top 10 of this list, five cities are U.S. ones.
Next on our job wishlist: making the four-day week a reality.
Here's the list of the cities with the highest percentage of remote and hybrid jobs:
1. Mexico City, Mexico - 18.69%
2. New York, United States - 18.44%
3. San Francisco, United States - 17.62%
4. Warsaw, Poland - 14.82%
5. Lisbon, Portugal - 11.07%
6. Seattle, United States - 10.78%
7. Athens, Greece - 10.39%
8. Denver, United States - 10.02%
9. Bilbao, Spain - 9.62%
10. Boston, United States - 9.40%
11. Seville, Spain - 9.23%
12. Philadelphia, United States - 9.22%
13. Toronto, Canada - 9.12%
14. Baltimore, United States - 8.97%
15. San Jose, United States - 8.87%
16. Madrid, Spain - 8.62%
17. Budapest, Hungary - 8.28%
18. Washington, United States - 8.26%
19. Prague, Czech Republic - 8.22%
20. Chicago, United States - 8.20%