We use a corporate VPN to access a remote server in Canada for most of our work and im wondering if my employer can still know my location. I don’t see any tracking software installed on my machine, but it could still be there.
I plan to be transparent with my manager about my desire to work abroad for two months but our current policy allows us to work abroad for one month per year. They view it as some sort of “perk” instead of considering the possibility that changing the work environment could actually help improve productivity, let alone morale. If he says no to two months during our discussion, I will reluctantly accept the policy and be the little bitch boy labor asset they want because it’d be too stressful lying to people. Still, I am wondering how exactly he would be able to know my location considering we use a corporate VPN to begin with.
Cheers and thanks for your thoughts.
My advice is get a travel router, and don’t even ask or mention your travels to your job. If they somehow find out then play dumb. If you set up the travel router right they shouldn’t ever know
The VPN server will know the IP address of whos connecting to it, if they have a problem with people connecting from other countries it will likely be locked down to prevent access at all, but since they allow it as a “perk”, I’m guessing its not locked down that way. Otherwise I doubt IT is trolling the logs that often or snitching about it to your manager unless they’re realllly bored.
But yes technically possible.
FYI: VPN knows the ip you connect from, and can determine the location of that ip
But if you have a travel router and configure it to connect to a VPN, than any device connected to the router will show as being at that vpn’s ip. So your work VPN would see the ip and location of the router VPN, not your actual up and location.
you can use a pi as route then vpn on the pi route traffic to home network are vps in canada