Office Optional: San Diego's Remote Work Revolution Hits the Sand
Remote work meetup planned in Pacific Beach on Friday the 13th From a Pacific Beach laptop meetup to a citywide shift in how — and where — people work, San Diego is testing the limits of the "work from anywhere" era. Law Street Beach, Pacific Beach, San Diego, California On a Friday morning in mid-March, (when people in the East are trudging through slush or still digging out from snow) a digital creator named Scotty Muirhead set up a desk on the sand at Law Street Beach in Pacific Beach and invited the internet to join him. The gathering he called a "remote work meetup" was casual by design — no registration, no sponsors, no programming. Just laptops, surfboards, and the Pacific Ocean as a backdrop. The dress code, in Muirhead's words: "business casual encouraged — corporate up top, beach mode below." It was a small event with a large idea behind it. And in a city that has been quietly reshaping what w...