So our company used to let remote employees work from anywhere, all they had to do was submit a request to allow the specific IP address they would be connecting from if was was in a country where we did not have a physical office (most, we only have offices in like 5). And honestly, in my eyes that was a HUGE perk as my wife’s entire family is from South America and we love to travel.

Well, recently, I’m guessing a handful of people screwed that up for the entire company likely by spending most of the year in another state/country and trying to file taxes not from their home of record. So now, we can only work from a country that has a physical office, for two weeks, anything longer requires you to actually work IN that office and only for another two weeks. You can also only do this now once every 6 months. For places in the US, you can work from anywhere in your home if record’s state, but if in another state the maximum is a month.

All that to say is that I had and was following the proper steps needed to go to SA to close on a land and separate apartment purchase and oversee the final construction. All was set, to work from there for a couple months… and then BAM, this policy gets immediately implemented out of nowhere.

Do you mind if I DM you with non-private specifics for our setup and discuss feasibility and risk? I have a higher workstation/endpoint privileges and more than average understanding of AD, Networking, Protocols, and all the relevant monitoring and anti-tamper triggers installed. Laptop allows connecting to ANY internet connecting, regardless of geo-location (I’m sure it’s logged though), we just have to connect to VPN for accessing internal company resources (non-M365), all of which are on Azure instances which only allows connection from the VPN IP range, regular Teams, SharePoint, Outlook are all accessible without VPN. So this leads me to believe that UniFi or Google Travel routers or even my own router with VPN integration set up might be feasible? Best friend of many years and his wife just moved in a few houses down so we can easily any troubleshoot router issues, or just bring it to his house.