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Looks like the classic MVP page to test if this is a good idea. Seems interesting, but can you imagine the headaches of looking after 100 people, in 18 locations across the globe, in one year?! Coordinating jobs, visas, accommodation, people leaving, getting fired, personal issues, flights, buses, etc. I have taken coordinated trips with 90+ people on the same plain to remote destinations, and it takes months of planning for a single stop. You would need full time handlers.

ps. don't get me wrong, I like the idea, but you are likely going to burn these people out with tons of logistic issues.

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I can't help thinking ~25 people and ~10 locations would be more of a sweet spot (100 people is too large a group for a lot of accommodation and easy booking on scheduled flights, for a start) but finding employers who want to guarantee 12 months' remote work for a given bunch of aspirant globetrotters on a relatively high-intensity world tour will be trickier still.

But still, it sounds like fun and does solve the problem of lack of friends and focus for permatravellers.

Might be easier to aim this at micropreneurs with runway as more of an alternative to the shared workspace/exotic workaway though....

We are going to have 5 full time staff to handle all of those details.

Very cool. How are you handling work Visas? For example, when I moved to the US I kept my job back home but I still need a work visa.

What kind of visa did you use that let you keep working for a foreign company?

I've had the following US visas: E, J, L. I worked for a foreign company on E and L visas. You can work on an J visa, but there are very strict requirements -- you can't work for most local companies let along a foreign company.

The type of visa you'll need really depends on your situation. This site will give you a brief overview of the types of visas available.

http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/general/all-vi...

You are a tourist working remotely for some company in other country, do you need work visa in that case ?

I am a tourist working remotely for my own company while in the US.

Technically you need a visa. Practically as long as invoices are coming from your own country and the money is going to your own country, nobody will care (or even notice).

Unless of course you make posts like this one in a public forum under a name everyone knows you under. But I am counting on inefficiencies and the good will of fellow hackernewsers. (you'd need to actively get reported for anything to happen)

PS: having an actual tourist/business visitor's visa rather than just the visa waiver (esta) makes things easier and border crossings go much smoother

Swizec's answer is good, you technically need a visa. If you can afford to be kicked out of the country and not be allowed back in for a long time (10 years in the US), then it might be worth the risk of not getting the visa. But, if you can't risk being banned, or even if you just like to obey the law, you should get the visa, especially if it's easy... which it is for a lot of countries.

I work 100% remote in the US, and plan on traveling across the world while working, but I don't plan on getting anything other than a tourist visa for other countries.

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