I know there's a policy where you are not allowed to work outside of the US. Has anyone tried to do this with like a VPN router + travel router?
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@bn 2 weeks? I couldn’t find that info anywhere
We have been allowed to do so. I have worked out of the U.S. every year for a week without any issues or negative repercussions with upper Leadership fully aware. Suppose it depends what your role is.
Tried when I went to Ireland, thought good way to close charts while waiting in airport, got NOTHING. So carried computer around for nothing.
If you read the rules on Sparq, it's limited to two weeks per calendar year and a very short list of countries (surprise, India is not listed, likely due to security concerns).
Most countries will look the other way for "checking email" as work during a vacation for up to two weeks and not consider your employer has nexus, go after you for tax evasion, or visa violation, there's one last nugget on Sparq. In addition to official company permission, you have to prove you have the right to work in the country you're visiting! So literally, a work visa (even though you live/work in the USA) or another citizenship.
It's kind of pointless.
Plus, employees in Ireland are all hybrid and must live in the ROI. Even though they could legally live anywhere in the EU and work in Ireland, this isn't allowed because of the tax benefits we get from the government there AND the ability to shunt our network transactions thru Ireland which offers other fringe benefits.
Thats not a rule i would break. Now if you want to go work anywhere remote in the US, I say have it!
This is a good way to get fired quick.
Most corp laptops are setup to have no access to internet until the auto VPN connection is established. All depends on which endpoint for the corp VPN your computer is configured to. May be restricted to US endpoints. In the old days when you could do some manual intervention connected to india from US since they all sleeping when we working in the US to have better network performance. If assigned to US home base then trying to connect outside US not sure if that would work. Corp VPN server may have a range of IP that are blocked to make the VPN connection. So may not permit connection from costa rica or mexico to get the VPN tunnel established for US based employee. Not worth the risk in this era of layoffs at all companies.
As long as you get stable Internet I don’t see the issue. Now if you set up your bank as some Belize or Costa Rica national bank you may raise eyebrows but you can probably find a way around it.
Mostly they don’t want to pay you in a foreign country’s tax laws. This also means you could be in deep trouble in the other country if their tax laws mean you should be paying them something but you are not. Depending on the country, sitting in their prisons for tax fraud might be on the lower end of places one wishes to be.
The VPN doesn't care where you are coming from - so long as it isnt libya, iraq, iran etc.
You can only access things while on VPN.
we have thousands of people working outside the US and remotely. Ireland, UK, India, Phillipines..
This will not work do not try it.