So, my friend has a fully-remote job, but his employer only allows him to work within the state the company is based in. He is planning to move outside of that state, but isn’t prepared to quit his job yet.
To evade detection from IT, this friend wants to set up some sort of VPN tunnel to leave with a relative within the original state, to route the traffic from his work laptop (which is locked down via JAMF software) through. The family he’s leaving this setup with isn’t tech savvy, and wouldn’t be able to troubleshoot anything beyond powercycling a device or plugging in an ethernet cable.
What would he need to do to set up such a tunnel, ideally with remote access to adjust settings/troubleshoot, and how does he ensure that his work laptop never exposes an out-of-state IP to his employer?
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I think you are trying to solve a legal issue using a technological solution. The issue isn’t where his connections are coming from, the issue is where he’s a resident. It’s probably related to taxes or some other legal thing.
No matter what sort of technology you apply, you ain’t solving the legal issue.
It is 100% related to his company’s income tax footprint. If they have an employee in a state, they almost always have to file corporate income taxes in that state.
If they don’t have an employee there, they may have very good and legal reasons to not file there.
The issue is as someone who’s not exposed to corporate taxes and works on the company’s tax returns, you have no idea just how much of an issue this can be. Say your salary is $100,000; you think what’s the issue, I only cost the company that much… Your dumb ass just moves into a state where your employer said you can’t work there. All of a sudden, the company owes $1+ million in taxes they weren’t on the hook for before because they have to file a combined unitary tax return. You didn’t being just your stupid ass into the state, you brought 20 other companies into the state.
Go ahead and absolutely move. When your corporate tax department finds out, your ass will get canned.