Vivere Italia: 'working from home' from your Italian home

What a wonderful country it is! That food, the sun, the hospitality, the atmosphere, the views.... So wonderful! I hear it more and more around me, when I speak to clients returning from holidays or who have just started their search for a house. Superlatives fall short to let Italy lovers describe their favourite country. More and more people want to spend more often and longer in the boot.

Where do you want to work

With remote working increasingly possible for many people, people are realising that it doesn't matter if  you work from home, or in Italy. Indeed it does! Recently, I have seen more and more clients leaving for their second home for longer periods to combine work and the Italy feeling. It seems to be a real trend. There is even already a new word for it: workation. A good high-speed internet connection is available almost everywhere in Italy these days. So, what are you waiting for? Pack up and go! Of course, not all jobs are suitable for remote working, but the corona crisis did show us that a lot of work could be done from home. Perhaps I'm giving you an idea? Vivere Italia, or 'Live and experience Italy', I can recommend it.

Plenty of examples

Monique and Peter spend much of the year in their house in Umbria that they bought 3 years ago and completely renovated it. They rent out a guest apartment, carry out property management activities and also work digitally. Peter is an entrepreneur and works online as an IT specialist and Monique provides styling advice to her clients through Teams or Zoom. Huib and Katelijne also have good experiences. They have just returned after six weeks in a house in Piedmont they bought last spring. Katelijne works in education and could be away for a long time. Huib runs his own consultancy company and, through corona, already had a lot of experience working from home and managing his team remotely. Video calling does cost a lot of MBs and if you do it for a large part of the day, it goes fast. So an unlimited subscription is advisable then. Huib worked half days and also spent half days doing odd jobs and working in the garden, an ideal combination, especially in a new house. And of course they explored the area with its nice little towns, markets and restaurants. Truly an ideal combination of Business & Pleasure. I am convinced that this example will be followed by more and more Italy lovers in the coming years. So in addition to 'buon viaggio', from now on 'Buon lavoro!' will become increasingly common.