Salary and working remote

[DeepPurple]

@Maphistos_Sidekick

I think many North American employers impose the constraint that their employees be domestic, due to tax and benefit concerns, although that wouldn’t necessarily preclude a long “working vacation”

Yes, I do know a particular company that was advertising that they could hire a remote person but that person had to work in one of the US states that the company had license to hire you from. It wasn’t 50 states. It was less than half that.

[Lucy]

We have slightly different rules for employees in different states. I can imagine that dealing with employment rules in a random different country isn’t worth the overhead.

[Maphistos_Sidekick]

@Whiskey

My company does not allow working vacations outside the US

My company operates on a “self-managed time” basis for positions above a certain level (roughly ACAS-level for actuaries). We don’t have documentable PTO.

Our HR isn’t going to complain if you log on a few times while overseas for a week or a week and a half, assuming you’re someplace where VPN works and is legal.

But a month(s)-long stint working abroad wouldn’t be kosher.

[John.S.Mill]

not sure how one would manage that anyway. if you’re able to deal with the time difference I suppose go for it

[Maphistos_Sidekick]

The folks I’ve worked with in my time at my company have been mostly based in Eastern and Central time. I used to love working during visits to the west coast – I’d stay on Eastern time, get work done early and then have extra daylight to do stuff after work,

I think a 3, maybe 4, hour time difference is the limit of that kind of time-shifting strategy working. Beyond that, you have to start figuring out what time differences imply to scheduling meetings, etc.

[Whiskey]

@Maphistos_Sidekick

Our HR isn’t going to complain if you log on a few times while overseas for a week or a week and a half, assuming you’re someplace where VPN works and is legal.

I believe our IT blocks oversea IP adresses from accessing the company VPN, so you woukd have to use a VPN to spoof a domestic location in order to even connect.

They are pretty strict about this one thing (amd really not much else).

We don’t have unlimited PTO, but enough thay it is difficult to actually use it all (for someone without kids).

[Whiskey]

@John.S.Mill

not sure how one would manage that anyway. if you’re able to deal with the time difference I suppose go for it

Prior to this rule being implemented, i had a coworker that spent five months in Malaysia.
That was a challenge.

[Maphistos_Sidekick]

@Whiskey

I believe our IT blocks oversea IP adresses from accessing the company VPN, so you woukd have to use a VPN to spoof a domestic location in order to even connect.

…whereas my company is active in multiple countries, so there are constraints on just how much geo-blocking they can implement.

I wouldn’t be surprised if certain countries are blocked in the interest of network defense, rather than a “don’t connect at all while on vacation” stance.

[HedgePig]

@WhenFCAS

Sounds kinda cool to work with people in other parts of the world.
Maybe consulting is something I should look into

Are there other parts of the world that fully recognize CAS credentials?
Let’s say I want to work in Shanghai/China or London/England, would I be respected or do I have to go through their own system to be recognized as credentialed?

I’m not on the property/casualty side so but I think that depending on what you want to do and where you are, you may need to have local credentials, for example if you are signing off on reserves. But generally you would be recognized, especially in Asia, where many countries don’t have their own exam system. (And contrary to what another poster said, most insurance in Asia is not nationalized.)