Remote work questions

Annisele

Part of it is about employment rights. If you were working in (say) California, your employer would be required to treat you as an employee under Californian law - and there are many places where that's very very different to UK employment law. The chances that your employer will inadvertently breach some regulation are extremely high.

If your home country is Ireland, I think you have a bit more of a chance (there are a bunch of special rules for UK/Ireland stuff). If your home country is the US, I think you should forget the idea entirely. Somewhere in between, I think you would have a chance for senior roles. But it sounds as though you're after something fairly junior - and unless the employer already has policies in place that allow working from abroad, unfortunately they're very unlikely to put them in place for you.

(Plus - you say you're happy to travel back and forth as needed. But Covid might prevent you from doing that, at only a few hour's notice. So that isn't as reassuring for an employer as it might normally be.)

Thrugelmir

Juumanji said:

 and pretty much whenever needed.

Pretty much is unlikely to be good enough. Employers are paying for you to be available on their terms i.e. at short notice. Not when it's convenient to you. Flights etc to arrange. 

[Deleted User]

You don't say which country you are in.

Why is this important?

Because companies in the UK are requi by law to fiercely protect their data, and if if the law didn't require that, they'd want to anyway. Different countries put different legal protections on personal data. If you're in a country where the legal protections are not as strong as the UK, then companies are going to be reluctant to give you VPN access to their internal network, or any kind of access to their client data. 

Soot2006

There are tricky tax issues. I work for a UK company - during Covid, many of our non-UK native employees went to stay with family in their home countries - Spain, Germany, and Canada.  They've now been out of the country for such a long time that we've had to take legal advice to help them sort out their tax. Canada is always tricky, and we have some experience with that one. The post-Brexit EU issues are a new to us, however, and frankly our CEO was recently heard mumbling that all this was more trouble than it was worth and as far as he was concerned, they could all come back to the UK now.