You can request one-off periods of up to two weeks (up to two times per calendar year) to work abroad or at another location in the UK 🙂

Legal & security 🚨

We will aim to approve any overseas working, but there are a number of legal things that means that it won’t always be possible. For example, you need a right to work in the country or there could be tax implications of you working there.

Before confirming your travel plans and after discussing your request with your manager, you will need to research any tax or visa implications and share this with the people team ([email protected]) for approval. The people team will also check with the Information Security team whether it is possible to travel to your destination with your laptop. When your travel is confirmed you will need to email [email protected] so they can expect any alerts that come through to them.

Hours and ways of working 🕰️

• You'll need to be contactable during our core hours of 10am-4pm UK time
• You'll need to be able to meet the working requirements of your team (e.g. if your team has standup at 9:30am you would need to be there)
• Your line manager would need to be able to confirm you will be able to meet those requirements by talking through an explicit ways of working agreement with your team

Environment 🌎

You'll need to have an environment to work from that will set you up for success, including ensuring you have access to:

• a strong secure internet connection (not shared access wifi)
• a suitable desk setup (e.g. an additional screen if you need this to work effectively)
• privacy

In exceptional circumstances, we may be able to offer something different to this policy, please speak to your line manager about the working arrangement you would like to be considered.