‘Cosy’ European country needs remote workers – so they’re giving away free holidays

Cosying up successful a compartment surrounded by heavy bluish fjords, sending your emails whilst overlooking snowcapped mountains and unspoiled wilderness.

If that sounds similar your work-from-home dream, you’re successful luck.

A tech institution is seeking testers to enactment from a backstage compartment successful Norway, offering escaped flights, crushed proscription and accommodation for 2 people.

The 10 palmy applicants volition question to the Scandinavian state and walk six days moving remotely from 1 of the 5 breathtaking locations available, which see scenic skis resorts, picturesque sportfishing villages and rugged upland ranges.

The archetypal travel takes spot from March 18-23 successful the Lysefjord region, adjacent to a 42 km-long fjord wherever visitors tin bask bathing successful waterfalls, hiking, and boating excursions.

Brave travellers volition besides person the accidental to effort Lutefisk, a accepted Nordic crockery of dried whitefish that has been cured successful lye and rehydrated.

From March 25-30, web browser Opera is offering the accidental to sojourn either the mountainous archipelago of Lofoten oregon the Norefjell skis resort.

Lofoten is the tract of crystal-clear fjords and accepted sportfishing villages, portion Norefjell offers skiing for each levels and a panoramic presumption of Norway’s melodramatic landscapes.

Visitors to some locations volition besides person a accidental to spot the Northern Lights.

From April 1-6, fortunate travellers person a accidental to sojourn Bodø, a municipality conscionable northbound of the Arctic Circle known for its moose population, oregon Ålesund, a larboard municipality connected the westbound seashore famed for its creation nouveau architecture.

During the five-night stays, the winning travellers volition trial moving from 1 of Opera’s ‘hygge desks’.

The desks are designed to beryllium cosy spaces with lukewarm lighting and unparalleled views of nature, eliminating distractions and allowing workers to beryllium contiguous successful the moment.

For the accidental to go a hygge tester, anxious travellers tin use connected the Opera website. Applications adjacent connected February 28, with winners announced connected March 5.

But if you aren’t 1 of the fortunate 10 picked to question to Norway, you tin inactive unrecorded retired your integer nomad dreams elsewhere.

Last year, Extremadura, a portion successful Spain, announced it was offering up to €15,000 (£12,530) to those who enactment remotely successful the tech industry.

The determination is an effort to springiness an economical boost to the portion (which has 1 of the country’s smallest populations and lowest GDPs per capita) and non-EU nationals tin use if they person already obtained Spain’s integer nomad visa.

Elsewhere, successful March 2024 Japan launched a caller six-month integer nomad visa, though the exertion process is acold from straightforward.

The Japanese authorities is asking that applicants gain astatine slightest ¥10 cardinal (around £53,485) per twelvemonth and that they person backstage healthcare.

Plus, determination are restrictions connected definite activities, specified arsenic opening a slope relationship oregon renting semipermanent accommodation.

Other countries that person precocious launched integer nomad visas see South Korea, successful January 2024, Thailand, successful July past year, and Taiwan, which launched precocious connected January 1.

Euronews precocious revealed that Finland’s integer nomad visa has the lowest income requirements successful Europe, with applicants needing to gain a minimum of €1,220 (£1019) per month.

Meanwhile, Luxembourg City was revealed past twelvemonth arsenic Europe’s champion destination for distant workers, according to factors including safety, WiFi speed, and the general cost of living.

Other cities that ranked precocious connected the database see Olomouc, successful Czechia, and Rotterdam and Aalborg successful the Netherlands.

A abstracted survey crowned Tuzla, the third-largest metropolis successful Bosnia and Herzegovina, arsenic the cheapest spot to beryllium a distant worker.

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