science

Remote Year

Remote Year is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Remote Year rather than just read about it. In short: Remote Year was a company that facilitated travel and accommodations for people working or interested in working remotely. For $2,000–3,000 per month, Remote Year organized accommodation, workspaces, and professional and local activities to enable participants to travel while continuing to work and to foster a sense of community among participants.

Key takeaways

Remote Year belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Remote Year to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Remote Year from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Remote Year was a company that facilitated travel and accommodations for people working or interested in working remotely. For $2,000–3,000 per month, Remote Year organized accommodation, workspaces, and professional and local activities to enable participants to travel while continuing to work and to foster a sense of community among participants. The program included trips across multiple cities and continents. Remote Year hosted employees from over 300 companies participating in its programs.

History Greg Caplan and Sam Pessin launched Remote Year in 2014, after finding it difficult to travel with friends whose work schedules did not allow them to travel freely. Applications for the first Remote Year program opened in December 2014. Over 50,000 people signed up to be notified when the application went live. The company arranged travel between cities, housing, co-working spaces with Wi-Fi, and personal and professional group activities. In October 2020, Selina, a Panama-based hospitality brand, acquired Remote Year for an undisclosed amount. In December 2024, Remote Year announced its closure after nearly a decade of operation. The company, which had been acquired by Collective Hospitality earlier that year as part of the purchase of Selina, cited "circumstances beyond our control" for the shutdown.

Legacy Remote Year was a notable company in the digital nomad and remote work travel space. Its closure left a gap for remote workers seeking structured, community-driven travel programs. Several other companies and organizations have since offered similar remote work travel experiences, including programs by Noma Collective, Hacker Paradise, and WiFi Tribe. These companies provide multi-week travel programs for digital nomads and location-independent professionals, continuing the type of experiences Remote Year had popularized.

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Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Remote Year

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Remote Year claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Remote Year before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Remote Year ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Remote Year

In research: Remote Year appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Remote Year in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Remote Year is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Defunct companies, Telecommuting, Transport companies established in 2014, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Remote Year outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Remote Year in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Remote Year means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Remote Year out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Remote Year in simple terms?

Why does Remote Year matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Remote Year?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Remote Year.