Prague is the fifth best city in the world for working from home, the survey found
Updates: 11/4/2021 3:30 PM
Released: 4.11.2021, 15:30
Prague – Prague is the fifth best city in the world for working from home. This is the ranking of WorkMotion, a company that specializes in finding jobs abroad. In the leading position ladder is the Australian city of Melbourne, the second is the Canadian Montreal, the third Sydney.
Prague received points for the availability of rentals, quality transport, the quality of public education or gender equality. On the contrary, among the worst rated categories in Prague are the legally necessary requirements for residence, but also the level of taxation.
“The pandemic accelerated the trend of teleworking much more than we expected. The technologies necessary for teleworking were of course there before the pandemic. What has changed, however, is the attitude of companies to work from home (…), accepting the possibility that the best the candidate for the position may live in another country, “Carsten Lebtig, co-founder and CEO of WorkMotion, told La Libre.
The large European capitals did not turn up very flatteringly in the ranking. Brussels is 52nd, mainly due to high tax rates. For the same reason, along with housing prices, Paris is 62. Berlin is eleventh. London ranked 36th, mainly due to prices and housing affordability.
People have different priorities when choosing a place to live, and therefore also to work from home, and they can also choose destinations according to them, says La Libre. According to the ranking, the most advantageous taxes are in Istanbul, followed by Lisbon. Digital nomads will find the lowest cost of living in Bangalore or Bali. The Danish capital Copenhagen can be the happiest resident.
The ranking took into account a total of 17 categories, in each of which it was possible to obtain up to 100 points. The data for each category drew on existing and available data, including data from the World Bank, the European Commission (EC) or the World Health Organization (WHO). WorkMotion rated a total of 80 cities.