Question
“How do I get a full remote job, tell my employer exactly what all my plans are, and never get the offer rescinded and be forced to RTO?”
Answer
YOU DON’T! Read the VPN wiki, buy a travel router, tell no one your plans, and just GO!
The reason why 99% of employers will say no is tax and legal liabilities. Use your brain!
Nobody likes the real answer: learn to code. When your output is the entire business, you have a lot of leverage with an employer.
Keep in mind that lying to your employer can open you up to legal repercussions. And it can also open your employer to same.
VPNs, however implemented, can be detected, and the average person will not maintain a secure set up in the long term. Your OPSEC needs to be perfect all the time, your employer only needs you to slip up once.
By all means “just go” but accept it carry’s a significant amount of personal risk, including financial.
Keep in mind that lying to your employer can open you up to legal repercussions. And it can also open your employer to same.
Yeah, the lying is definitely not something that should be done when your company is involved with handling protected information of any kind (health records, government stuff, likely some financials as well).
Since that can be more properly illegal, as opposed to just against company policy.
Yes, lie and break your employment contract. What could go wrong?
The issue is, to use an old baseball metaphor, is that different people have different foul lines.
A lot of DNs fly under the radar, but some will never do that because it would be based on “lies” to the company. The counterpoint is the companies and bosses lie to workers all the time, so even stevens.
I asked HR during my onboarding process what their thoughts were on travel, just in general like working internationally during “extended vacations” to make sure there were no tax issues, just hypothetically. She said there was no problem there.
Just told my manager last week I was going to Buenos Aires and he couldn’t have been more exited for me.
There are good companies with good people out there.
Take all this “be super secretive to your employer” advice with a grain of salt. If you feel that they will give you their full backing and support, tell them!