To go abroad when working from home?

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If I went to Italy or France or Spain or wherever... and logged in and did my work - would this be wrong?
I work 8-2 Mon - Thurs normally
Never have to go into office, except for 4 meetings a year.

And I would work as usual, and thought I could then spend the afternoons exploring and taking it all in.

There's nothing wrong with my idea, is there??

Some employers don’t allow it.

can cause tax issues.

personally know I’d struggle to concentrate if I was somewhere lovely…

Depends on your company’s data protection / information governance requirements and the terms of your employment contract - ie might you be required to present at the office on the day if requested to do so.

Yes. There are potential implications for your employer - legal, financial, data security. Do you have the right to work for those countries? Check your employers overseas working policy.

Neither mine or DH employer would allow this unless explicitly agreed in advance.

I have done this and my employer was fine with it.

Some of my colleagues have done this but we’ve been told it’s no longer allowed for “insurance reasons”. They added some software which I think knows where we are!

Not allowed in my field due to data security, someone got fired for taking their laptop to Nigeria, IT knew immediately when they logged on

check your employer's policy, as pp said, this can have implications. We are allowed to work from abroad 20 days per year, any longer requires specific approval.

You need to check their policy and data security set up. Do you use a vpn? What data will you be accessing?
In principle it’s ok but only if they allow it as it has security ramifications.

They will know immediately where you are when you log on.

If you don’t think there’s an issue with it, just tell them.

We have a “work from anywhere for x weeks a year” policy at work and there’s quite a big section around all the insurance (company property and adequate health cover), tax, security and any legal & regulatory requirements, as well as the fact you may need a work permit or visa to work in some places. Probably overkill as many company policies are but worth a bit more thought.

My employer would be fine with it for a period of time, just ask.

My employer permits working from abroad but for a maximum of 3 weeks a year. You couldn’t just disappear off without permission though.

Legally do you have the right to work in any of those countries?
What is your job? Anything that involves moving data moving in and out of the EU is no longer allowed due to Brexit.
Who does the laptop belong to? If it's a company laptop and company data it probably isn't insured for the above reasons.

DH is prohibited from doing this unless he has prior approval and is either on a designated business meeting and works out of a branch office.

It's basically no longer possible to do.

This. My friend was told to return to the UK or resign. He resigned.

IT found out through his IP address that he was abroad.

We have a policy about this, and I would definitely check and get written approval beforehand.

As an example a friend is a data scientist for healthcare data, and sometimes goes to the states to do the work, because it would breach GDPR to do it in the UK or EU.

You need to get it approved

We block a bunch of countries in our firewall. So whilst we wouldn't know you went abroad, you'd struggle to log in to certain applications.
My DS friend went to Oz over Xmas, he couldn't use the school software for revision as their licence agreement didn't cover Oz. Microsoft in particular is hot on this and will geo locate you.
So it's a risk doing it without asking permission

Definitely check your overseas working policy. Ours allows it for up to two weeks and in very limited circumstances (eg close family member terminal illness).

You would have to approve it with employer first. Depending on how much tech/security they use, they might know if you logged in from a foreign IP address.

Our work laptops won’t work outside of the uk and at a previous role three people were fired for logging in abroad so I would book annual leave if I was you

We have a policy in place for this and it is allowed, but has to be requested and any legal and tax implications are completely down to the employee to check

My company would be OK with this. I haven't done it yet myself but I asked a couple of months ago on account of feeling I couldn't endure another British February. Didn't think it'd be a problem and it wasn't.

It depends if your employer lets you. We used to be allowed to but now expressly are not.

Strictly forbidden where I work. People with family in Europe are pretty unhappy about it.

You need to ask permission first. My firm just sacked someone for doing this without permission.