US Sen. Mazie K. Hirono of Hawaiʻi and US Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai held a roundtable discussion with Hawaiʻi resource partners and local business owners.
Why Hawaii s remote work program attracted a different type of visitor
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Josten Forsythe (left) visits the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, also known as the Hawaii State Museum of Natural and Cultural History with his Movers and Shakas cohort. Forsythe grew up in central Oahu.Bryson Hoe/Courtesy of Movers and Shakas
When Nicole Lim, who was born and raised on Honolulu, heard last December about Movers and Shakas, a public-private initiative to bring remote workers to Hawaii temporarily, “I was viscerally upset about it,” she recalls. “I envisioned tech bros coming over and harassing dolphins and driving rents up.”