Some WFH employees now live in another country
Thoughts as a tech manager:<p>- People&#x27;s attempts to hide their remote lifestyle are mostly laughable. You don&#x27;t need sophisticated tooling to know that someone isn&#x27;t where they say. I see you every day. I can recognize patterns. I can see the changes in work hours, response times and just general behavior. I can tell when you have just rolled out of bed with a coffee or come back from the club.<p>- Most managers I know don&#x27;t give a shit. In fact we&#x27;d rather not know at all. It&#x27;s really HR you have to worry about (and I&#x27;m not going to tell them unless you give me a reason to).<p>- HR itself only cares because of the tax implications. Inter-state taxes are bad enough, figuring out international ones are basically impossible. The company can get into major trouble if they are not following local employment laws, and &quot;I didn&#x27;t know my employee lived there&quot; isn&#x27;t a good enough defense.<p>- For those saying &quot;IRS will come after you&quot;, these remote employees are paying full federal, state (mostly CA), payroll and various local taxes while using none of the benefits. The government is probably ecstatic that such people exist.<p>- The government on the other side is the one you <i>really</i> have to worry about. Locals in Mexico City, all over South America, Bali, Thailand, Vietnam and really all over the world are pissed with these &quot;digital nomads&quot; (read: illegal immigrants) who work on tourist visas and upend the local economy while paying no taxes. It&#x27;s only a matter of time before they all start cracking down.