Some WFH employees now live in another country
Thoughts as a tech manager:<p>- People's attempts to hide their remote lifestyle are mostly laughable. You don't need sophisticated tooling to know that someone isn'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't give a shit. In fact we'd rather not know at all. It's really HR you have to worry about (and I'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 "I didn't know my employee lived there" isn't a good enough defense.<p>- For those saying "IRS will come after you", 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 "digital nomads" (read: illegal immigrants) who work on tourist visas and upend the local economy while paying no taxes. It's only a matter of time before they all start cracking down.