Can work tell I'm working from a cruise ship?

[Anonymous]

We were recently on a cruise ship that had an amazing Starlink connection. We'd like to cruise more and ideally, I'd like to maybe work 1-2 days while on the ship.

We are a 100% remote office. It would be very possible to clear my schedule so that I would have no video calls during the week I'm at sea.

Any thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Yes, they can see where you are. The question is if it matters? Are you required to work from your home office?

[Anonymous]

Are you using a work laptop or accessing the work network? If so, yes, they can tell where you are logging on from.

[Anonymous]

Our IT would know because cruise ships are registered to foreign countries and if we want to access email from outside the US, we have to jet IT know so they can set the correct permissions.

[Anonymous]

My IT dept knew when I checked my email from Aruba on my personal cell phone. So yes they will know.
It was Microsoft365/Outlook if that matters.

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

I've been on a ship with Starlink, in Europe. The IP address showed up as Netherlands location-wise. I was in the Mediterranean.

[Anonymous]

If you work in another country, you might be subject to their labor and tax laws, or you might be making your company liable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, they can see where you are. The question is if it matters? Are you required to work from your home office?

+1

[Anonymous]

You could use a vpn. I’ve done that before. You can actually run a vpn over a vpn if needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you work in another country, you might be subject to their labor and tax laws, or you might be making your company liable.

Not for a couple of days

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could use a vpn. I’ve done that before. You can actually run a vpn over a vpn if needed.

This. I have clients in the middle east who use vpns quite a bit to disguise their location.

But OP, if you are fully remote does it matter where you are doing your work from? I'd just ask about that.

[Anonymous]

It depends on how sophisticated your IT and security systems are. My office would know right away, and I'd be in big trouble for taking company assets out of the country (assuming you are going on a cruise out of the country). My old company would have no clue and probably wouldn't care, because there were no restrictions like that on the nature of the work we did there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We were recently on a cruise ship that had an amazing Starlink connection. We'd like to cruise more and ideally, I'd like to maybe work 1-2 days while on the ship.

We are a 100% remote office. It would be very possible to clear my schedule so that I would have no video calls during the week I'm at sea.

Any thoughts?

Please tell me you’re not a Fed.

[Anonymous]

I think the bigger question is why would you pay for a cruise to spend 1-2 days working? But to answer your question, yes, they can see via the IP address. If you are prohibited from working/connecting from outside the US, don’t risk it.