Case Study# 5 – Portugal (Lisbon Metropolitan Area)

Urban remote work: employees, companies, and digital nomads

Significance of this area for remote work

Lisbon’s climate, culture and affordability attract many remote workers, including digital nomads earning from abroad. This growing presence reshapes urban life but also puts pressure on the housing market, contributing to rising rents and gentrification.

The Lisbon case study in #WinWin4WorkLife goes beyond digital nomads. It also examines how local employees and companies experience remote work — looking at impacts on productivity, mental well-being, social life, daily mobility and land use.

The aim is to support policies that make remote work beneficial for all: enabling flexibility and urban vitality while protecting affordability and community cohesion.

The Greater Region of Luxembourg in WinWin4WorkLife

Step 1: 1000 companies kick things off with an employer survey about their remote work policies, workforce productivity and mental health concerns.

Step 2: Next up, 1000 employees will share their remote work experience in an employee survey. We’ll dive into its impact on work-life balance, productivity and mental health, and see if it might inspire employees to move residences or change jobs.

Step 3: The excitement continues as 400 employees will use the mobile-friendly MOTUS app to complete a time use diary. Make it to this stage, and you might win an exciting prize!

Step 4: Then, we will invite 30 employees for an in-depth interview to explore how remote work impacts household arrangements.

Step 5: Unique to the Portuguese study, we are looking for 500 digital nomads to participate in an online survey about their experiences of living and working abroad in Lisbon.

Step 6: Finally, insights from these employer and employee studies will fuel a series of local co-creation workshops. Here, stakeholders will discuss the future of remote work in Portugal and Lisbon metropolitan area more specifically.

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀!
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