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The Geo-Flexibility Study 2026
How much freedom do people actually have over where they live and work, and what is it costing them?
- Anonymous. No name, no account.
- No email needed to take part.
- About 7 minutes.
- Results published free.
1 people have answered
Target 2,000
Why this study exists
People get real freedom over where they live and work in more than one way, and most research only looks at one of them. A remote worker who can live anywhere has it. So does a ski-lift operator or a fruit picker whose seasonal contract moves them country to country. So does a nurse or an engineer who took a job abroad on a visa their employer sponsored. Three different routes to the same thing, and studies that survey one of them call it the whole picture.
So this study asks a wider question of a wider group: how much real say do you have over where you are, whether that came from going remote, from seasonal work, or from a sponsored move abroad, or from nothing at all? What is stopping you? And what does your employer actually offer, as opposed to advertise? It is deliberately open to people whose work has never left one building either, on a fixed shift with no say in the matter. Nurses, drivers, teachers, chefs, site crews. A survey that only reaches people who already have location freedom can only ever rediscover that they have it.
Fielding runs for the next three to six months. When it closes, the figures, the questionnaire and the anonymised dataset are published free on this page for anyone to re-analyse or argue with.
Remote, worldwide or multi-country
Fully remote and free to live anywhere, or remote within a set region.
Seasonal work that moves you
A contract that takes you somewhere for part of the year, then somewhere else next season.
Visa-sponsored work abroad
A job that relocated you on a visa or work permit your employer arranged.
The survey covers all three routes, plus the much larger group who have none of them, so the results can compare across the whole picture rather than describing just one corner of it.
Who wants to go, and who is stopped
How many people want to travel more and cannot, how many are content using vacation days, and how many simply do not want to.
What the obstacle really is
Employer policy, the nature of the work, money, visas, tax, caring responsibilities, health, time zones. Ranked, not assumed.
What employers actually offer
Paid vacation, work-from-anywhere weeks, sabbaticals, visa or relocation support, or nothing at all, and how much of it goes unused.
What it is worth
How much pay people would trade for location freedom, and how many have already changed jobs or moved countries to get it.
What the survey asks
Nothing is hidden from you before you start. These are the parts, in order. You only see the ones that apply to you, so a self-employed respondent is never asked about a staff vacation policy.
- 1
About your situation
Your age, country and whether you work at all, so the rest of the questions fit your situation.
- 2
How you work
Onsite, hybrid, remote, seasonal, sponsored abroad or freelance, and how much of that is your choice.
- 3
Travel, and what you want
How much you actually travelled, how much you want to, and what you would trade to do more of it.
- 4
What gets in the way
The single biggest thing in the way, and everything else behind it. Ranked by you, not assumed by us.
- 5
What you are actually offered
Vacation days, work-from-anywhere days, sabbaticals, visa help, or nothing at all, and how much goes unused.
- 6
The next two years
Where you would go first, and what would genuinely have to change for you to work the way you want.
- 7
About you
Optional background, so results can be checked against the working population and reported by group.
You stay anonymous
There is no sign-up and no paywall of personal details in front of the questions. You answer, you press Finish, and you are done. Here is exactly what that means, so you are not taking it on trust.
What gets saved
- Your answers, as you gave them.
- Which link brought you here, so every finding can be reported by recruitment channel.
- How long you took, which is used as a quality check and nothing else.
- Your browser language and the site that referred you, to spot machine translation and bot traffic.
What we never ask for
- Your name.
- Your employer.
- An account, a login or a password.
- An email address, unless you choose to leave one at the very end for the results.
Your IP address is not stored. To notice one device submitting twenty times, the survey keeps a one-way hash of a deliberately blunted version of it: the last part of the address is thrown away before hashing, so a whole neighbourhood produces the same value and it cannot be turned back into an address by us or by anyone who obtained the database.
If you do leave an email, it is stored in a separate table with no key of any kind joining it to your answers. That is a property of the database, not a promise about our behaviour: there is no query that could put the two back together.
You can still change your mind. The last page shows a reference code that exists only on your response. Send it to research@enroutejobs.com and that response is deleted. It is the only way to find your row, so keep it if that matters to you.
Take the survey
Answer for how things actually are, not how they ought to sound. Your answers save in this browser as you go, so you can close the tab and come back.
Before you start
This is an independent research survey run by EnRoute Jobs about how much freedom people have over where they live and work. It takes about seven minutes. There is a two-minute version if you are short of time.
Your answers are anonymous. We do not ask for your name, your employer, or your IP address. If you give us an email address at the end it is stored separately from your answers, used only to send you the results or to arrange an interview, and never sold or published.
Results will be published as aggregate statistics and anonymous quotes. No individual answer will ever be published in a way that could identify you.
You must be 18 or over. You can stop at any point and nothing is saved until you reach the end of a page. To have your response removed afterwards, email research@enroutejobs.com with the reference number shown at the end.
No account, no name, no email needed. Nothing is sent until you press Finish at the end.
How we will report it
Published before a single answer was counted, so that none of it can be adjusted later to suit the result.
- This is a non-probability sample, and we will say so every time.
- Respondents choose to take part; nobody is randomly selected. That means it describes the people who answered, not the working population, and we will never write a sentence that implies otherwise. No margin of error will be quoted, because a self-selected sample does not have one.
- Every response records how the person arrived.
- Each recruitment channel has its own tag. Results are reported by channel as well as in total, so anyone can see whether a finding holds outside the audiences most likely to agree with it. Where a number differs sharply by channel, we publish the spread rather than the average.
- Quality flags are published, not hidden.
- Responses that arrive impossibly fast, fail the attention check, or contradict themselves are marked and excluded, and the number excluded is stated alongside every figure.
- The questionnaire and the anonymised data are released with the results.
- Question wording changes answers, so the wording goes out with the numbers. The full anonymised dataset is published free for anyone to re-analyse.
- Answers are anonymous and the email list is separate.
- We collect no name, no employer and no IP address. An email address, if you leave one, is stored in a different table with nothing linking it to your answers.
The full questionnaire and method are also published as a free PDF in the EnRoute Jobs library.
Help it reach the right people
The study is short of exactly the people least likely to see it: nurses, drivers, teachers, shift workers, anyone whose job has never moved an inch. It also needs the people whose location freedom does not look like remote work at all: seasonal crews who follow the season country to country, and people who moved abroad on a visa their employer sponsored. If you know someone in any of those groups, they are worth more to this than another remote worker.
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When it publishes
Fielding runs to the end of the collection window, with an interim read at the halfway point for anyone who has shared the survey. The full report, the questionnaire and the anonymised dataset are published free on this page, and everyone who left an email gets them first.
Press and researchers: research@enroutejobs.com. We will share interim figures under embargo with named outlets.