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Sunday, October 18, 2026

No one has ever told you the most important fact about digital nomads - Computerworld

Where do your employees live?

In the post-pandemic world of flex-work, hybrid-work, and remote-work, where your employees live is suddenly a very important question.

Conversations around post-pandemic employee categories overemphasize the differences between office workers on one hand and hybrid and remote workers on the other—and also underemphasize the much greater differences between specific kinds of remote workers. These differences have big implications for both the companies and the employees themselves.

In other words, we tend to intuit a Great Divide between full-time office workers and hybrid and remote workers. But that’s not where the line is.

A full-time office worker and a hybrid worker (a person who works in the office part-time and at home part-time) have the most in common. They both usually reside in the same state and are therefore governed by the same employment laws. They both usually live within commuting distance of the workplace and can be called into the office on short notice. They’re usually in the same time zone. They both usually pay taxes in the same state. And the tax implications for the employer are usually the same.

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