Camping information and booking website The Dyrt found in a survey that 23.8% of campers say they worked remotely while camping in 2022. That statistic was identical to the work-from-campsite stat from the previous year.
“With return-to-the-office efforts across the country, one might have expected the work-from-campsite rate to decrease, but it stayed level,” said Kevin Long, CEO of The Dyrt. “Work from campsite is here to stay. You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube, and you can’t put a productive working camper back in the cubicle.”
Of the thousands of respondents who took part in the survey, 13.4% are categorized as avid campers, meaning they took more than 10 camping trips in 2022. That group was found to be nearly two times more likely to have worked from a campsite last year than other campers.
Vanlifers are one of the main groups of people who take their work on the road, and in fact, Long and founder Sarah Smith ran The Dyrt from their camper van for six months in the latter half of 2021 while crisscrossing the country.
“Remote work doesn’t have to be work from home,” Smith said. “As the leading resource and community for campers, we love it when a member of our fully remote team works from a campsite. It adds energy to our meetings when someone logs on from the side of a lake or the base of a mountain.”
Recent technological advances have made the work-from-campsite lifestyle even easier to attain, the company noted, citing SpaceX’s satellite-based Starlink, which recently announced it can provide high-speed internet while a vehicle is in motion.
