Could your new office be the beach?

Aided by technology—and self-employment—a growing number of people are actually working from the beach. Seriously.

While you’re Dilberting away in your cubicle, there are people taking conference calls in board shorts and flip-flops. While you’re saving your two weeks of vacation to hit the sand, they’re getting paid to be there.

There are people-even respectable people-who have somehow turned a folding chair into a place of work.

Aided by technology, pioneers are now converting the beach into a fully functional office, Business Week reports.

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