Anyone has experience transferring from a US remote job to Canadian remote job?

I know this may not be the ideal place to ask, but I haven’t been able to find much information on Sparq or through my communications with HR, and was hoping this group might be able to share any relevant experience.

I’ve been with Optum Health for several years as a U.S.-based remote employee. Recently, I’ve been exploring the possibility of relocating to Canada. I’m a Canadian citizen, and through my own research I’ve seen that Optum has a few business segments in Canada, with many employees working remotely.

I’m wondering whether anyone has experience with, or insight into, transferring from a U.S. role to the Canadian entity while continuing to support the same U.S. team. I recognize this is a fairly niche scenario, but I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who has gone through something similar or knows how this has been handled in the past.

Thanks in advance!

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Canada is a separate business - you would not be able to keep your current job but have it report into a different business unit. The telecommuting policy states that international telecommuting is generally not allowed although you can apply for an exception in rare cases. I have worked from Canada for a week now and again, but if you are there longer they would eventually find out because your VPN would show it. There are also tax implications for being a US employee but working in Canada that would not work in your favor. In short, this is not a great plan.

We had one person that tried, but was unsuccessful transferring as an employee from US to Canada. I believe you can but only way is that if the job function is defined to support contractual work from Canada. You’ll need to contact your manager and have them inquire with HR about your ability to work from Canada. Most likely it’s not.

Canada is not a growth area for Optum. Many of the Canadian employees were brought in through M&A.

Why not call employee center and ask?

@ac tbf their manager is probably fu--ing useless and they have no access to reliable information otherwise.

It's a good question, but I don't know why you'd be asking it here. Its a valid internal company question.

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