Yup she’s already going back next week😂
Not sure how this works in North America, but wouldn’t her country of residence affect where she pays her taxes? And gets the benefits of those taxes as well. But I’d assume she’d have to have an address in Canada for that to be possible and officially live there.
I feel like it’s not only the company that will find issue with this arrangement if she actually lives in the US. There’s an organization called IRS that would be interested in this.
I’d go for telling them as well and handling the taxes according to law to avoid issues.
Yeah that’s pretty much what I was looking for, thanks! Do you have any experience with them personally?
If she gets a company provided laptop she will likely not have admin rights, which is required to install any sort of VPN service or even to change IP address settings to use a VPN router and point it to a specific gateway.
This feels like guesswork and is wrong in most cases. Company-assigned computers have to be able to establish a connection to a home network, so DHCP will be allowed. The company would have no idea how your home network is set up to lock you out of using DHCP in most cases. The only time I have seen this not be the case is if they provide a physical router/VPN with the computer (confidential/classified materials). It sounds like in OP’s case they likely wouldn’t be doing that, unless the job is that very secure about communications.
Even if the company provides its own software or hardware VPN, the OP can buy a router with the ability to funnel all traffic over a VPN service, then that personally owned router will handle the IP assignments and make the traffic appear to be coming from another country. Nothing would have to be done on the actual work computer that requires elevated privileges. It is possible, pretty easily, even with restrictions on the work computer.
For OP’s sake though, IPs from VPN companies can be identified, it’s how Netflix and other services block connections from them at times. Bottom line, I feel the company can and would find out if they truly cared about someone using a VPN to spoof where they are working from. You’re going to make a mistake, mention weather that is different than where you claim to be or you might not have heard about some crazy story in the local news coworkers ask you about, etc. I think the other comments cover the bigger issues OP might face, fraud and tax implications once discovered.
If you have to guess on this, maybe don’t. Canadians can stay in the US for 6mo at a time for pretty much no reason. That’s pretty easy to manage
It is possible. Even i didn’t fully tested, but you can start to get a phone plan that free roaming in US. Then use the hotspot data connection from that bell/Roger phone, it will be Canadian ip. While again, i didn’t fully tested this
Vpn router is the way to go. Make sure you get one that allows you to use it as a repeater. That way you can connect to any public wifi and create a vpn connection. My preference is GLi net routers.
Agreed!
Yeah we’re not messing around with the legality of working in the US, we’re here legally and plan to keep it that way! 
yep - I use the router myself
To be clear, if you live in the US, then you must pay US income taxes, and I don’t think you’ll be able to hide that from your Canadian company - if that’s your goal.