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PH Ranks 7th On Nomad List's Top 10 Remote Work Hubs In The World
- By The Financial District
- Nov 2, 2023
- 2 min read
The Philippines has been ranked 7th among the top 10 Global Remote Work Hubs by Nomad List, a digital platform that "finds the best places in the world to live, work, and travel as a remote worker."
The work hubs were ranked by the growth rate of check-ins made to places by tens of thousands of Nomad List members using live data.
The list was topped by Tokyo, Japan, followed by Da Nang, Vietnam; Seoul, South Korea; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Penang, also in Malaysia; Montevideo, Uruguay; Manila, Philippines; Hanoi, Vietnam; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Nomad List, founded by Dutch website developer Pieter Levels in 2014 with headquarters in Medellin, Colombia, is dedicated to the rising trend of traveling remote workers, also called digital nomads.
It enables people to find the best places to go based on their preferences like internet speed, cost of living, weather, and safety, according to its website.
The work hubs were ranked by the growth rate of check-ins made to places by tens of thousands of Nomad List members using live data. Nomad List collects millions of data points every second on thousands of cities around the world, from the cost of living to temperature to safety.
The growth numbers give travelers and workers an idea of the fastest-growing remote work hubs and also show the current rank on Nomad List so they can gauge the popularity of the place.
The platform noted that remote work has been growing fast, and thousands of
The Philippines recorded a 60% growth based on ten months of data for 2023. The country posted a 78% growth from 2018 to 2022.
Malacañang has welcomed Manila's inclusion on the list. The Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said in a statement, "The Marcos government has been enticing businesses to come to the Philippines, considering the country's young, highly skilled, and English-speaking workforce."
"The Philippines is also ideal for business due to its sustained economic growth rate, current bureaucratic reforms, and the administration's ongoing thrust for infrastructure development and digitalization," the PCO added.
