This is a piece of political posturing by the current government. People have been coming here and working on holiday for years, even though people are supposed to get a work permit if you come as a tourist and work remotely there's no practical to enforce it and no government has tried in the past. Making this change will have no practical effect on the economy.

New Zealand citizenship is looking mighty appealing these days.

Pretty funny they waited for WFH to be eliminated at most of the large tech companies. Guessing that is not a coincidence.

LMAO. Aren't digital nomads attracted by cheap cost of living relative to their home country? I live in NZ and (almost) everything is expensive as fuck.

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