Comment on Survey: 73% of Amazon workers are considering quitting after 5-day in-office mandate

• tty5@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m not going to touch immigration, work permits etc, because it varies greatly - I’m assuming you figure it out. For skilled workers with work experience there usually is a fairly painless way to get all you need.

  Continuing to work:

  • your employed has to have presence in the country you are moving to, or
  • they have to handle your employment through an intermediary, like deel.com, or
  • you have to transition to independent contractor (potentially legally dicey if you are a contractor in name only)
  • if your company doesn’t support fully async work don’t move more than 8 time zones away - that way you’ll still be able to join some meetings

  Moving is the simplest part:

  • Lightweight & cheap option: pack a backpack/suitcase like you were going on long vacation. Buy plane tickets. Rent Airbnb at the location for a week and use that week to rent a place to live. This option is similar in cost to moving to a different city within a country with extra costs being $2000-3000 for travel and initial week at destination.
  • Everything and kitchen sink is not much more expensive: 10k gets everything you own professionally packed, stuffed in a 20 feet shipping container, shipping across the ocean, customs and delivery and unloading (but not unpacking from boxes). 20 feet container is enough to take everything in a large, packed 2 bedroom condo including furniture.

  At destination you will need:

  • work permit / work visa
  • local equivalent of social security / tax number / sometimes both - file a form, sometimes pay a small fee
  • a business (if you are going independent contractor route)
  • bank account

  Vast majority of the info you need will often be available on the embassy website of your destination country.

  Source: over the 20 years of my career I moved across the ocean twice with my family and worked from a total of 4 countries.

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thanks so much for posting such a detailed reply. I appreciate it and will be looking into this in the near future.

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