Work From Anywhere: How To Become a Digital Nomad

by | Apr 5, 2023 | Podcast | 0 comments

John Lee
John Lee

John Lee is the Co-founder and CEO of Work From Anywhere, a platform that helps companies execute a compliant global hiring strategy. He also founded CultureMee, an intercultural communications platform that won “Best Travel Technology Product” at the Global Youth Travel Awards in 2018. Before Work From Anywhere and CultureMee, John held senior finance roles and traveled to over 150 locations in a 10-year period, where he witnessed the challenges of managing complex corporate and individual taxes and employment law across multiple jurisdictions.

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Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: 

  • [6:43] John Lee shares why he geeks out on artificial intelligence
  • [8:23] The greatest challenges of working abroad as a digital nomad
  • [11:27] What are the leading countries for remote work?
  • [16:33] How to evaluate work abroad locations — and how businesses can create these opportunities 
  • [27:01] Global work’s impact on company culture and employee morale 
  • [34:20] Risks companies face when adopting work abroad policies 
  • [43:20] How are companies incentivizing digital nomads? 
  • [46:22] Tips and tricks for adapting to a digital nomad lifestyle

In this episode…

Remote work is becoming mainstream, initiating a demand for digital nomad work styles, where employees work remotely from various global locations. But these policies have legal implications that can be costly for uninformed companies. So how can you navigate tax and immigration laws to develop work-from-anywhere policies that boost talent acquisition and retention?

Many businesses believe that countries waive tax requirements after 183 days of residence. But according to digital nomad John Lee, this is a myth, and violating an employment visa can subject your company to fines, preventing you from hiring globally. Developing a global work program requires evaluating each country’s laws to remain compliant. Some countries, including Portugal and Barbados, offer two types of digital nomad visas: work from anywhere, allowing employees to work temporarily in another country, and hire from anywhere, permitting businesses to hire within a given country. By comprehensively assessing work abroad prerequisites, you can decrease employee attrition.

Tune in to this episode of What The Teck? as Rolando Rosas and Dave Kelly host Co-founder and CEO of Work From Anywhere, John Lee, to discuss working abroad. John shares the leading countries for remote work, the risks companies face when adopting work abroad policies, and advice for adapting to a digital nomad lifestyle.

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Episode Transcript

Intro  0:00  

Hi welcome to the What The Teck? podcast where we talk about business and Office Technology and put our 20 years of expertise to discussing trends and issues impacting the workplace.

Rolando Rosas  0:26  

Hi there. It’s Rolando. Hey Dave here and we are your co hosts for the podcast, What The Teck? where we talk to business and tech influencers in today’s evolving business world.

Dave Kelly  0:38  

That’s right. And we have a great guest today. Hey, listen, Before we introduce our guest, Rolando, we want to give big props to a couple of folks out there. Listen, I gotta give props to Craig CJ settles I can tell you. This guy’s doing wonderful things. CJ was a recent guest of ours. And we had a great conversation about telehealth access, and getting access to the funding and working with local communities so that they can apply for grants and whatnot. Check his episode out that we did recently or of course, his website is CJspeaks.com. Where do you want to give a shout out to Ro

Rolando Rosas  1:15  

You know Dave, the team over at Yealink that we’ve been working with for the past year or so. But specifically over the last few months, they’ve been really extremely helpful, but some of the things we’re doing the products we’ve been launching with them, specifically Jensen, Doreen, East. And Molly, they’ve all been super helpful. I you know, it is a pleasure to work with them. You know, they’ve been working in this industry for almost 20 years. You know, not all manufacturers are created the same. Some, some folks, and some manufacturers really go out of their way to supporting the channel and channel partners like us. And I gotta tell you, Yealink has been crushing it. And they’ve been really, really very helpful with us over the past six to eight months as we’ve been cranking out products with them. So shout out and big props to the Yealink. Team. All right, well, let’s give him a proper a proper Big props we gave him maybe a couple props that were props to them. All right. And by the way, Dave, you know, let’s tell our audience if you want to hear CJ and some of the rest of the folks that we brought on, go on, check out the circuitloops.com website and you’ll get all the episodes again that circuitloops.com A Dave, do we have some sponsorship message today?

Dave Kelly  2:39  

We do let’s run through of quick sponsorships. So listen, Global Teck Worldwide. They’ve been in business for 20 years serving international companies, small or large, even the individual digital nomads that are out there. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a digital nomad, or if you’re an offshore call center, the easiest way to improve your productivity is by having access to the right tools. So get those right headsets, webcams and other conferencing tools at amazon.com/teck. And that’s teck

Rolando Rosas  3:14  

awesome, Dave. And you know what, we have Circuitloops. That is their other sponsor. So times are tough. And pennies count companies, big and small, are all under the gun with what’s happening. And a lot of times, Dave, a lot of those folks are paying for slow, outdated business internet. Stop doing that. Why would you want to do that things have changed rapidly over the last 24 months. Hey, John, let me ask you, I know that you’re in agreement, but let me ask you, are you a coffee drinker?

John Lee  3:47  

I absolutely love my coffee for sure. 

Rolando Rosas  3:49  

The last time you went to a coffee shop? How much would you say you paid? I know you’re you’re in euros you pay? How much are

John Lee  3:54  

we talking about? So crimson dollars about maybe $3.50, something like that.

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