justworkation.com
Articles and planning tools for remote workers taking a two-to-eight-week workation — the kind with a job to keep.
Genesis
Planning a workation splits into two problems the internet handles badly.
The first is what if. Nobody needs another listicle of sunny destinations; they need writing specific enough to make the thing feel possible. What it’s actually like to take a sprint review from a kitchen in the eastern Algarve, and how the conversation with your manager went three weeks before you left.
The second is will this go wrong. Will I trigger tax residency somewhere. Does my team’s time zone still work. What will this genuinely cost. Ask a general assistant and you get a hedged paragraph wrapped in a disclaimer — useful to nobody with a flight to book.
Full-time digital nomads are well served already. People with a salary or a client roster to protect, planning their first or second trip, are not.
Features
- First-person articles — specific people, specific trips, specific durations, with the boring logistics left in.
- Regional pieces written around actual coliving spaces: what a place is like in shoulder season, what a working week there feels like.
- A day counter for tracking days spent against residency thresholds. Arithmetic, not advice.
- A destination matcher — budget, time-zone needs, climate and connectivity in, a shortlist out.
- A cost calculator for a given destination and duration, built on public data rather than optimism.
- A time-zone overlap finder for anyone who has to be awake at the same time as their colleagues.
- Tools where the question comes up — on their own pages for people searching for exactly that, and inline in articles at the point the story raises the number.
What it isn’t
It does not give tax, visa, or immigration advice. It does arithmetic and has opinions, which are different things, and only one of them is actionable in court.
Where it stands
In development. The editorial side is furthest along — the first chapter, a Q1 stint in Fuseta, is drafted and going through fact-checking line by line, which is slower than writing it was. The tools are specified and queued; the day counter goes first.