4 remote workers secretly worked abroad without their employers knowing. Here's how they kept up the charade.
4 remote workers secretly worked abroad without their employers knowing. Here's how they kept up the charade."I went paragliding in the Andes Mountains. I went to a desert in Peru and went sandboarding," a marketing specialist told Insider."After doing all that, I just wasn't going to go back to the office."Insider spoke with four remote workers who traveled abroad without their employers' knowledge.
They say one trick to avoid getting caught is reading the local news and tracking the weather. The marketing specialist said these two best practices helped him maintain the ruse — during which, he says, he earned a pay bump and a promotion. His social-media accounts are public for work, so he posts pictures of his travels only in private Instagram Stories limited to close friends.
A former Miami resident told Insider that after his rent was raised to $2,700 a month from $2,150 , he and his husband quit their in-person jobs and moved to South America. Once they set up shop in Ecuador, they both accepted fully remote positions in marketing and consulting so they could covertly travel. He said that now their housing costs average about $500 a month for two-bedroom Airbnbs.
When colleagues ask how his weekend was, he said he contrives scenarios based on the couple's past life of brunching and beaching, when in reality they bathed in volcanic hot springs and hiked through the Andes.
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