According to The Dyrt’s 2023 Camping Report, 23.8% of consumers say they worked remotely while camping in 2022. The Dyrt is a camping information and booking app.
“With return-to-the-office efforts across the country, one might have expected the work-from-campsite rate to decrease, but it stayed level,” said Kevin Long, The Dyrt CEO. “Work from campsite is here to stay. You cannot put the toothpaste back in the tube, and you cannot put a productive working camper back in the cubicle.”
Thousands of respondents took part in the survey. Of those, 13.4% are categorized as avid campers, meaning they took more than 10 camping trips in 2022. That group was found to be two times more likely to have worked from a campsite last year than other campers.
A main consumer group, those who live long-term in vans, take their work on the road, The Dyrt said.
Long and The Dyrt founder Sarah Smith ran The Dyrt from their camper van for six months in late 2021 while crisscrossing the country.
“Remote work does not have to be work from home,” Smith said. “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.”
According to The Dyrt, recent technological advances have made the work-from-campsite lifestyle even easier to attain. SpaceX’s satellite based Starlink recently advertised it can provide high-speed internet while a vehicle is in motion.
“I find increased productivity when working from a campsite,” said The Dyrt camper Jason Dunne of Livingston, Texas. “The novelty of designing modern websites with Starlink in the middle of nowhere with solar power may never wear off.”
Consumers use The Dyrt to book RV sites, cabins and tent sites or find over 5,000 free camping sites in the U.S. To learn more, click here.
