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Digital Nomads Are Traveling by Day and Working by Night
For some remote workers, traveling the world means trading the usual daily routines for a different kind of grind — plugging in from dusk till dawn to stay connected to coworkers back home.
Sunset at Phu Quoc, Vietnam.
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Therese-Heather Belen is living the dream, working remotely full-time while traveling across Vietnam, Thailand, Japan and India.
But the dream comes with a catch: Her workday starts in the evening and lasts through the night. To stay in the same timezone as coworkers at her New York-based marketing tech firm, about a 12-hour difference, she works and takes meetings into the wee hours of the morning.