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You are not supposed to work remotely from abroad, however I know people who do. Just be careful what you say and to whom
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I don’t know and can’t speak to the specifics of any of those cases, and it’s of course sometimes simple to arrange such an accommodation.
I know that at many firms they don’t bother actively checking very frequently — they trust you to act with integrity and follow the law and relevant firm policies.
But it is really, really easy to catch you if you ever give the firm a reason to check — they just check what country your laptop was connected from and compare it to where you booked your time, and if they’re different they ask you to explain. Then they take whatever action is required, which can range from nothing to paying huge fines and notifying the relevant tax authorities depending on the specific jurisdictions involved. It’s a firing offense at every firm I’ve ever heard of, because it can open the firm to immense financial and legal liability.
There are tax and legal consequences for working abroad. Your clients may also have restrictions. Talk to HR before you make any plans, but generally speaking, you can work abroad for 30 days in a rolling 12 month period. Given the covid return to US testing requirements, you maybe be forced to take PTO/LOA if you cannot return timely. This is an administrative burden for you and your team. Don’t do it unless you have a real need to be abroad.
I think you can apply to do a 6 month or 1 yr rotation abroad
Depends on where you are located, working remotely from outside the US is mostly illegal (and that’s not up to PwC)
In the EU it’s easily possible
As far as getting staffed on international projects, it comes down completely to the circumstances in your project. In 5 years at PwC, I was staffed on 2 international projects. One required a 2 week trip to London, one we ended up having the local PwC team support, so I didn’t travel. Most people I worked with traveled internationally more often than I did. I did work with colleagues and clients based around the world very often however.
I would expect that post pandemic, international travel for projects will be even less common.
There was an instance where an associate on my team asked to work remotely from a European country for a month so they could visit their SO. It was approved by the partner on the project and they were able to do it.
I’ve also heard of some people just going to a remote country and working from there without notifying the firm, but this is against policy and should you be caught, it’s a fireable offense I believe. It’s a tax / legal issue.
Lastly, like several people have mentioned, international secondments are very common. This is where you apply to work for a period of time in an international office and support their market and projects. I think it’s a minimum of two years, with some exceptions. These opportunities are listed somewhere and you can apply to them whenever.
Intl secondments are available, but it’s not quite as easy as you made it sound. :) Each PwC firm around the world is a separate company, so both your home country has to be willing to send you and the host country has to be willing to receive you. It’s easiest to do if you’ve got a specialized skill set that’s in high demand in an emerging growth market (BRIC), but most people want to go to London/Sydney, and frankly they’ve got most of the needed skills locally