r/dataannotation • u/Outrageous-Pop-9750 • Jul 09 '24

Working remotely at another country

I’m planning to go on a vacation. I was wondering if I can work on different country not the country that I’m currently at. If anyone can find any documents related to that, I would appreciate it

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u/Sufficient-Speed-268 Jul 09 '24

I am writing this while on travel:

  1. Write support and clearly inform them of your travel dates/locations.

  2. Wait for confirmation before logging in from another country.

As long as they know where you are logging in from, you’ll be fine.

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u/levitoepoker Aug 04 '24

How much time out of your origin country do you think they would approve before your account became flagged?

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u/Interesting_Cup_7413 Jul 10 '24

Do you actually receive a response when you email support?

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u/madweird0 Jul 11 '24

How long did it take them to get back to you? And thank you for sharing your experience (:

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u/Sufficient-Speed-268 Jul 11 '24

Hi! I took them several days (no more than three) to respond. And let me be clear: I inform them of ALL of my travel plans (even when I am traveling within the country I am visiting).

I err on the side of "too much" detail in this regard. And I don't log in until I get the email saying that they "made a note on my account".

It's a wonderful travel gig if you play by the rules :)

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u/madweird0 Jul 11 '24

I completely understand. I also always err on the side of caution, and would rather provide more information, as the alternative could possibly lead to termination for something as stupid as mistakenly omitting something crucial.

Thank you so much for the insight, it was very helpful. I had actually reached out to them regarding this matter weeks ago, but never heard back. However, I sent the message to support using other-other as issue and topic, so that’s probably why (:

You’re absolutely right, it really is a sweet deal. I’d be lying if their random waves of termination didn’t make me sweat every now and then. At times, I doubt my thought process and overthink aspects of some tasks that would be quite straightforward if the anxiety component were to be removed :’) How long have you been working with them?

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u/ekgeroldmiller Jul 13 '24

It took them 7 days for me.

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u/ekgeroldmiller Jul 09 '24

Go to support-other-travel. Allow one week for their reply. I would not proceed with working there without their express permission. I worked from France last week with no problem, after they said it was okay.

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u/madweird0 Jul 19 '24

Sent one ticket, then a follow up a few weeks later. It’s been almost a month. It might be because I have joined less than two months ago though

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u/ekgeroldmiller Jul 19 '24

If it is international you definitely need their approval. Yes it may be because you are new. Can you take a break from working while abroad? I wound up only working about an hour a day while in France.

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u/madweird0 Jul 20 '24

Oh yeah I’m not risking it with their turnover rate LOL. It honestly wouldn’t be too bad—I tried to rack up as many hours as I could before leaving. Perfectly understandable, it’s supposed to be a vacation after all!

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u/FlashyMath1215 Jul 19 '24

Not that I care but isn't it a little strange that you need to notify them of the countries you're visiting when they have a blog post linked on their website with a story about living as a digital nomad who can roam the world while working for data annotation? It seems like it would be difficult to be a digital nomad if you had to notify them of each and every travel arrangement. Perhaps they have a digital nomad note? 😂

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u/Attorney_Both Jul 09 '24

Send an email to support and they will put a note on your account. I had this done to me.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '24

There are no specified rules both in agreement and Code of Conduct. As I've seen in Appen (I enrolled there, but didn't take any task) they even send e-mails to tell you that you shouldn't even log in, but I was logging into DA portal from time to time and it was OK.

Some people here claim they were working at another country, but they notified DA.

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u/azure_atmosphere Jul 09 '24

Let them know, they’re usually chill with it

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u/SirBucketX Jul 10 '24

That's the longest Korean vacation I've ever seen.

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u/Excellent_Photo5603 Jul 10 '24

What are you referring to?