Melbourne Ranked Best City in the World for Remote Work Infrastructure

The Cities Best Facilitating Remote Work survey by Workmotion is based on a statistical formula, which analyses and compares 80 global cities by looking at four specific factors: remote working compliance, cost of living, civic infrastructure, and liveability. And in each factor, there are sub-factors that are further evaluated. On that note, the highest score is 100. For instance, for cost of living, taxes, housing costs, housing accessibility are some sub-factors looked at. In another instance, for liveability, the survey looks at sub-factors such as, happiness, cultural attractions, and mobility. A point to note, in situations where a lower value is better (i.e cost of living and cost of housing), the score is inverted such that a higher value is better. With that, Melbourne, Australia is ranked the first with an overall index score of 100. It is followed by Montreal (Canada) at 98.2, and Sydney (Australia) at 97.76. Singapore has an index score of 88.63—it is behind two European cities Tallinn (Estonia) (93.27) and Zagreb (Croatia) (89.17). In the factor of remote working compliance, Singapore achieved a score of 89.5 for ease of compliance, and 95.6 for legal requirements. While in liveability, it has a happiness score of 84.65, and cultural attractions and mobility scores of 75.29 and 88.85 respectively. Thailand, has two cities in the survey: Chiang Mai (55th) and Bangkok (68th). Compared on the same factor, Chiang Mai earned a score of 65.1 and 54.90 for sub-factors in remote working compliance, and 79.90, 61.24, 99.39 for sub-factors in liveability. Meanwhile, Bangkok achieved a score of 65.10 and 54.90 in the former factor, and 82.03, 68.22, and 85.11 in the latter. Hong Kong (60th) has a total index score of 68.33. While scores in factors such as ease of compliance and liveability are fairly similar, more contrast could be seen in both nations' civic infrastructure which looks at political stability, safety & security, minority equality, LGBT+ equality, gender equality, to name a couple.