Presenting: justworkation.com
I built a site with articles and planning tools for remote workers taking a two-to-eight-week workation — the kind with a job to keep.
Early May 2026
Full-time digital nomads are well served already. People with a salary to protect are not.
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 it 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. Tax residency, time zones, what it genuinely costs. Ask a general assistant and you get a hedged paragraph wrapped in a disclaimer.
So the site has two halves. The editorial half went out first: fourteen pieces on the eastern Algarve, built out of my Q1 stint in Fuseta — trip reports, guides, regional spotlights, plus a small directory of the coliving spaces they were written from.
The tools are the other half: a day counter for residency thresholds, a destination matcher, a cost calculator built on public data rather than optimism, and a time-zone overlap finder. None of them run yet. Each has a page explaining in some detail what it will eventually do, a genre the internet has never been short of. They ship one at a time.
What it won’t do is give tax, visa or immigration advice. It does arithmetic and has opinions. Only one of those holds up in court.