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Nope, unless your country has a special arrangement with the country you are visiting, you cannot work with a tourist visa, at all. Does not matter if the company is local or not. No work visa = no work.

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Makes sense. So everyone that works while traveling is doing so illegally

Oh wait

Yes, unless they have the correct visa. No work visa, no working. It really is that simple.

Almost all countries don't even have policies covering a lot of those scenarios and you'd probably win in court anyway

So you can't open your work laptop while on vacation?

You cannot always take the law literally....

What the law says and what you can get away with are different, yes.

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