Are you ready to work abroad? — HomeLink readiness assessment

What the assessment covers

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Whether your work apps still think you're at home — your IP address, the first thing IT checks on every login.

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What your laptop and phone are quietly broadcasting — timezone on your calendar invites, location pings from your authentication app, the things you can't see but IT can.

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Whether you'll get flagged on your next trip — your overall risk, distilled into one number you can actually act on.

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What lands in your inbox when you finish

Five documents emailed the moment you finish: your personalized blueprint, the Travel Day playbook, the Return-Trip Cleanup checklist, the "If IT pings you" emergency playbook, plus a country-specific destination brief. Free. No card. No upsell.

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Personalized work-from-abroad blueprint

A 2-page custom report built from your actual answers.

Your 0–100 detection risk score with full band analysis
A status table across 10 risk areas — your specific result on each
Top exposures ranked by leverage, each with the exact fix, time required, and cost
A sequenced 3-step action plan — the highest-leverage items first
A phased view of your trip: before you go, while you're there, on return
Print-ready PDF in two clicks for your travel folder

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The "Travel Day" playbook

The operations manual for the seven days before your flight through your first three days at the destination.

T-7 days: baseline IdP audit, timezone lock, IP-layer test, bank notifications
T-2 days: a full work-day rehearsal so nothing fails on hotel WiFi
Morning of flight: what to carry, what not to post, the final clean baseline
In transit: airline WiFi rules and which apps to keep off mobile networks
First hour at destination: the order to power up devices and which app to open before any others
Day 1 through Day 3: when to audit, when to relax, the exact recovery move if you slip

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The Return-Trip Cleanup checklist

Six precise actions in the 48 hours around your return so the trailing 30 days of audit logs look ordinary.

The "all clear" verification you do the moment you land
How to pull and save your full trip's IdP audit log before it rolls off
Which app settings NOT to update right after returning — and why doing them all at once is louder than the trip itself
The social-media discipline window: what's safe to post and when
How to resume work without creating "I'm back" artifacts
The 48-hour follow-up audit, plus guidance for what to do if anything looks off

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"If IT pings you" emergency playbook

The document you hope you never need but want to have already read — once, before you go.

The single non-negotiable rule for the first hour — and why deviating turns a question into a termination
Step zero: a 5-item checklist to confirm the alarm is even real (stale VPN, mis-pointed router, ISP geo-IP error, carrier NAT, household leaks)
A signals table mapping what IT probably saw versus what they actually know — so your response matches the threat, not your fear
How to buy time in writing without lying — exact phrases to use
The conversation tactics for the call: what to listen for, what not to volunteer, and how to defer without lying when you don't have a clean answer
When and how to bring in a lawyer if it escalates

Plus a country-specific destination brief — see below for the full list.

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And a destination brief — wherever you're headed

Tell us your destination on the assessment and we'll include a 2-page brief specific to that country — what your IT actually sees from there, country-specific gotchas, banking and streaming differences, and what to handle before you go.

Portugal Spain Mexico Japan Thailand Costa Rica Colombia Argentina Vietnam Bali UK Italy France Germany Greece

Included with your assessment results.

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Built by someone who's been in your seat

Chris — cybersecurity engineer. He built HomeLink after working remotely from 10 countries without a single IT flag. The assessment maps the same detection vectors he stress-tests for enterprise security teams.

In our review of hundreds of r/digitalnomad and r/remotework threads, roughly 45% of posts about working abroad named getting flagged by IT as the top fear. Most don't know what's actually visible before they book the flight.

"Made possible what I never imagined — working remotely from anywhere." — Gladys, Router Kit Pro · Feb 2026 · Verified buyer

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People who took the quiz before their trip

"I'm pursuing Portuguese citizenship — two years of physical residency required — but my US tech job is the only thing making it possible financially. I took the quiz expecting to feel worse, and instead I got a clear picture of what was actually leaking and what wasn't. My score was a 41, the blueprint flagged my MFA push location as the gap I'd missed entirely, and the Portugal destination brief was worth the email by itself. I knew exactly what to fix before I bought the plane ticket."

Kayla S. Software engineer · Pursuing residency in Portugal Took the assessment Feb 2026

"I just wanted to stay in San Juan four extra days after a long weekend. Not burn PTO, not drag a giant project home. Took the quiz that morning thinking it'd be paranoid overkill — and the assessment surfaced exactly two things I needed to lock down before I opened my laptop Tuesday: my device timezone and my MFA push location. Done in 10 minutes. No PTO, no panic, no IT ping. The blueprint paid for itself in skipped vacation days."

Richard P. Account exec · Remote-extended a Puerto Rico weekend Took the assessment Mar 2026

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The state of remote work from abroad

Working remotely from somewhere you didn't disclose isn't a fringe behavior anymore. 18.5 million Americans — 12% of the US workforce — now work as digital nomads, up 153% since 2019. 80% of leaders have already received employee requests to work while traveling, but roughly a third of companies still have no guardrails at all. The result is a gray zone: lots of demand, no rules, and employees left to figure out the technical side themselves.

Most people enter that gray zone with the same three half-measures — a consumer VPN, a manual timezone change, and the assumption nobody will pull the audit log. Almost nobody routes their traffic through home — even though it's the single step that closes the IP layer, and the IP layer is the first thing every modern monitoring tool checks.

Sources: MBO Partners 2025 State of Independence; Deloitte Global Remote Work Survey for Tax.

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