Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
by acheron9383 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @02:07PM
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Working from a separate country isn't usually allowed based on the labor laws of that country, since you are still paying your taxes to your home country while using the infrastructure of another. You can certainly do it, but your company may not want to know you are doing it.
Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
by ElysianEagle on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @02:51PM
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Exactly this! I'm not sure why people assume WFH must mean you're literally confined to your home/apartment for the entire duration of the work day. Unless you have to frequently get on calls requiring a quiet space, you should be fine working from cafes, co-working spaces and yes - even other countries if you so choose to (for short periods of time at least). I've been doing this at my current workplace as have a number of others I know.
Obviously there is an exception right now, but normally "working from home" means you can work from anywhere you want (different country, parents cottage, coffee shop, outside, where ever).
I work for a tech company and we have people who regularly go to Europe/other places for months and work from there just getting up/working later depending on timezone.
Most people assume that working from home or working remotely means sitting at home at a desk and working the exact same as you would an office. In which case you lose the office communication. But that's wrong.