Abstract:

Since its outbreak, the Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on everyone's life, both personally and professionally. Public life was almost completely shut down, the future was uncertain and much took place within one's own four walls. Private travel was suddenly no longer possible, so that a longing for distant places arose. Jobs were moved to the home office as far as possible and companies had to upgrade their technical equipment to make this possible. New technologies as well as the growing digitalization of companies, which was accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, made these new forms of work possible. All of this led to frequent considerations about an alternative to the previous life, driven by the digital independence of the individual. In this article, the two individual areas of wanderlust and remote work are first researched separately and the respective situations before, during and after the pandemic are compared. Subsequently, the connection between the two areas in the form of life as a digital nomad is highlighter while it is investigated whether and how the pandemic has influenced or the trend of living as a digital nomad and to what extent.