UK Companies with remote work
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My wife is going to be looking for a new job after the summer time, she has experience of working for large international companies starting from admin roles, to supervisor and then offered management position. This included B2B site visits and managing her own team successfully.
At the time our own business took off and she left her full time roll to run the admin, payroll and accounts side of the company, also dealing with daily tasks such as courier issues, customer complaints and so on. So lots of experience in the admin, supervisor and B2C and B2B world.
She is essentially on maternity at the moment from our business but we/I have since moved in to property investing/development and the admin side of things isn't really there any more and she wants to get back in to a routine when possible. Our issue is we now reside in Spain but are UK citizens, so I appreciate some companies would find this odd/not possible to offer employment.
Does anyone have any ideas on companies who would be open to this set up so we can short list a few to contact when needed?
She's happy to fly back every couple or months or so for any meetings if needed as we often visit the UK.
Also happy to look at part time position and would prefer to start of at admin role so not too tied down whilst we still have two children under 4!
At the time our own business took off and she left her full time roll to run the admin, payroll and accounts side of the company, also dealing with daily tasks such as courier issues, customer complaints and so on. So lots of experience in the admin, supervisor and B2C and B2B world.
She is essentially on maternity at the moment from our business but we/I have since moved in to property investing/development and the admin side of things isn't really there any more and she wants to get back in to a routine when possible. Our issue is we now reside in Spain but are UK citizens, so I appreciate some companies would find this odd/not possible to offer employment.
Does anyone have any ideas on companies who would be open to this set up so we can short list a few to contact when needed?
She's happy to fly back every couple or months or so for any meetings if needed as we often visit the UK.
Also happy to look at part time position and would prefer to start of at admin role so not too tied down whilst we still have two children under 4!
MOMACC said:
What profession was she in prior to this?
Is she fluent in Spanish.
Good questionsIs she fluent in Spanish.
OP - In my experience, you are looking for something of a unicorn.
A completely home-based role that allows you to work from wherever in the world? All I see is companies shifting the dynamic back to office-based working, not allowing less presence on site.
She isn't fluent enough in Spanish to be able to discuss specific topics in varying industries to be honest.
She has always been in this profession (Admin/Supervisor/office management). The only reason she left employment was to run similar tasks in our own business when needed.
I believe tax issues maybe one of the problems, we know through friends of friends/word of mouth there are other expats in the area working for UK companies remotely. It seems a lot of companies are still doing remote work (a friend has just got a remote position with Santander working on the mortgage team, never had any experience with this before) but being abroad will be an issue I suspect.
She has always been in this profession (Admin/Supervisor/office management). The only reason she left employment was to run similar tasks in our own business when needed.
I believe tax issues maybe one of the problems, we know through friends of friends/word of mouth there are other expats in the area working for UK companies remotely. It seems a lot of companies are still doing remote work (a friend has just got a remote position with Santander working on the mortgage team, never had any experience with this before) but being abroad will be an issue I suspect.
Thanks guys.
Again (from word of mouth) I am told a few of the expats here are essentially self employed in spain so they invoice for their work and this is much easier for the UK company, however I imagine only a small company would be willing to consider a set up like this rather than approaching a national business who wont care.
Appreciate its a long shot and she's looking further down the line how worth us doing some digging now.
Again (from word of mouth) I am told a few of the expats here are essentially self employed in spain so they invoice for their work and this is much easier for the UK company, however I imagine only a small company would be willing to consider a set up like this rather than approaching a national business who wont care.
Appreciate its a long shot and she's looking further down the line how worth us doing some digging now.
Sorry, skimmed over that initially!
So past employment was B2B working for a mid size chemical supply company, followed on by an international company and in their manufacturing department working between factories based in the EU and the UK dealers (B2B again), quickly promoted to supervisor roll and then offered management position. After that and over the last few years B2C for a retail company, but also doing lots of leg work behind just B2C (leasing with couriers, payment processing, suppliers etc) so a fairly varied roll but all based around B2C/B.
Quick learner and good at what ever she does so I am confident she could slot in to other rolls easily.
So past employment was B2B working for a mid size chemical supply company, followed on by an international company and in their manufacturing department working between factories based in the EU and the UK dealers (B2B again), quickly promoted to supervisor roll and then offered management position. After that and over the last few years B2C for a retail company, but also doing lots of leg work behind just B2C (leasing with couriers, payment processing, suppliers etc) so a fairly varied roll but all based around B2C/B.
Quick learner and good at what ever she does so I am confident she could slot in to other rolls easily.
We have been having a browse on the usual job sites and there seems to be quite a lot of companies advertising remote mortgage admin jobs, basically building client files, chasing up lenders, solicitors etc. She has no previous experience with mortgage type work but we buy/sell/rent properties so know the ins and outs of the mortgage process well and are not new to it by any means, there is the option of her self funding a Cemap course too which would/should fill in the gaps and give her good grounds to start.
Has anyone done this line of work before, any pro/cons?
She would not be wanting to become a fully fledged mortgage advisor any time soon so the admin role should fill a gap nicely.
Has anyone done this line of work before, any pro/cons?
She would not be wanting to become a fully fledged mortgage advisor any time soon so the admin role should fill a gap nicely.
RayDonovan said:
Countdown said:
RayDonovan said:
Is she planning on having childcare whilst working?
One of the benefits of homeworking is reduced/zero childcare costs 
And, to be honest, as long as the work is done it shouldn't matter.
What is your Visa for Spain?
Under a digital nomad visa she can work for a UK company but live in Spain.
We have a client whose Admin/payroll employee lives in tenerife but goes through UK payroll.
If you are looking for jobs for her then payroll, or call answering service (which we use - essentially as our receptionist) may be ideal for her
Under a digital nomad visa she can work for a UK company but live in Spain.
We have a client whose Admin/payroll employee lives in tenerife but goes through UK payroll.
If you are looking for jobs for her then payroll, or call answering service (which we use - essentially as our receptionist) may be ideal for her
I don't think any company that follows the correct rules and processes for employment and taxation will allow this. Someone I used to work with got special permission to work from home in Southern Ireland, but only for 6 months. This was only possible because she had some key skills and her manager went above and beyond to negotiate with HR. Even then, HR tried to end the arrangement early several times during the 6 months.
Another place I worked - the IT security people scanned the remote access logs on a daily basis for any out of country IP addresses. You weren't even allowed to "dial in" from Holiday. You could potentially use a VPN, but that can be detected too and would just open you up to another world of pain when it was uncovered.
As an existing employee in a small informally run company, who is valued, you might be able to swing it for a while. As a new employee, with no track record and no loyalty - not a chance.
You really are looking for something that doesn't exist.
Apologies for the negativity, but better that than give you false hope.
Another place I worked - the IT security people scanned the remote access logs on a daily basis for any out of country IP addresses. You weren't even allowed to "dial in" from Holiday. You could potentially use a VPN, but that can be detected too and would just open you up to another world of pain when it was uncovered.
As an existing employee in a small informally run company, who is valued, you might be able to swing it for a while. As a new employee, with no track record and no loyalty - not a chance.
You really are looking for something that doesn't exist.
Apologies for the negativity, but better that than give you false hope.
omniflow said:
I don't think any company that follows the correct rules and processes for employment and taxation will allow this. Someone I used to work with got special permission to work from home in Southern Ireland, but only for 6 months. This was only possible because she had some key skills and her manager went above and beyond to negotiate with HR. Even then, HR tried to end the arrangement early several times during the 6 months.
Another place I worked - the IT security people scanned the remote access logs on a daily basis for any out of country IP addresses. You weren't even allowed to "dial in" from Holiday. You could potentially use a VPN, but that can be detected too and would just open you up to another world of pain when it was uncovered.
As an existing employee in a small informally run company, who is valued, you might be able to swing it for a while. As a new employee, with no track record and no loyalty - not a chance.
Apologies if slightly O/TAnother place I worked - the IT security people scanned the remote access logs on a daily basis for any out of country IP addresses. You weren't even allowed to "dial in" from Holiday. You could potentially use a VPN, but that can be detected too and would just open you up to another world of pain when it was uncovered.
As an existing employee in a small informally run company, who is valued, you might be able to swing it for a while. As a new employee, with no track record and no loyalty - not a chance.
Assuming the Company is UK based and the Employee deducts all relevant UK tax/NI and the money is paid into a UK bank who would ever find out that the OP's wife was in Spain?
I know for a fact that we have lots of employees with properties in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland etc. One employee spent the school holidays in India so that her parents could do all the childcare whilst the kids had a long holiday. I'm not sure what the Employer needs to do to remain compliant and hat the chances are of an Employee actually being found out.
You don’t say where you are in Spain, but if you’re down south in the Gib area then there are employers there - gaming (where I work) specifically.
Working from home can be done with these (many of my colleagues live in Spain, but work in Gib) however if you’re working from home then they’ll want you paying tax in Spain - they are quite hot on this.
Working from home can be done with these (many of my colleagues live in Spain, but work in Gib) however if you’re working from home then they’ll want you paying tax in Spain - they are quite hot on this.
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