I freelance for US companies, worked remotely overseas for six years, multiple countries, different kinds of visas. I never had a work permit. I know and met pe

I freelance for US companies, worked remotely overseas for six years, multiple countries, different kinds of visas. I never had a work permit. I know and met people who worked as f/t remote employees, they mostly did the same thing — worked on tourist visas or some other kind of visa that did not allow working in the host country. Enforcement is lax. Some remote employees I met had work permits because their employer had an office in the foreign country. Some got work permits through an outfit like Iglu in Thailand. Mostly no one seems to worry about the work permit. Although generally illegal, most countries don’t focus immigration or labor law enforcement on digital nomads and remote workers because they are rarely taking jobs from locals.