Camping info and booking app maker, Dyrt, says that 23.8% of campers worked remotely while camping in 2022. This information is included in the 2023 Camping Report, which can be found here. It is worth noting that this percentage is the same as the work-from-campsite statistic from the previous year.

Kevin Long, CEO of The Dyrt, said:

“With return-to-the-office efforts across the country, one might have expected the work-from-campsite rate to decrease, but it stayed level. 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.”

Out of the thousands of survey takers, 13.4% were avid campers, which means they went on more than 10 camping trips in 2022. This group was found to be almost twice as likely to have worked while camping compared to other campers.

Vanlifers are among the main groups of people who work while traveling. For example, Long and founder Sarah Smith ran The Dyrt from their camper van for six months in the latter half of 2021 while traveling across the country.

Smith said:

“Remote work doesn’t have to be work from home. 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.”

Technological advancements have made it easier to work remotely even when camping. Starlink, which uses satellites, recently announced on Twitter that it could provide high-speed internet while a vehicle is in motion.

Camper Jason Dunne of Livingston, Texas, said:

“I find increased productivity when working from a campsite. The novelty of designing modern websites with Starlink in the middle of nowhere with solar power may never wear off!”