The Remote Work Concierge
Table Mountain and Lion's Head silhouetted at sunset across the bay Barcelona rooftops and the Sagrada Familia at golden hour Berlin TV Tower skyline at sunset
For remote workers with a work-from-abroad policy
For People & HR teams
For mobility, ops & EAs

Your company says you can work from anywhere.
We make anywhere work.

Make your work-from-abroad policy
work in real life.

The business trips your people take,
designed, not just booked.

We make work-from-abroad policies work in real life. Tell us your dates, your budget and what your workday needs, and we design the whole trip: flights, a base with verified wifi, workspace, and a week-by-week plan. You book every piece directly, in your own name. We never touch your money.

You wrote the policy to attract and keep good people, but most allowances go unused because planning a working month abroad is daunting. We remove that barrier, in a controlled way: policy-compliant durations, duty-of-care vetted, an HR-ready summary on every trip. Your people travel prepared, and the perk finally does its job.

Assignments to another office, client weeks, project stints. A travel desk books a flight and a chain hotel; we design the whole stay, verified wifi, a real desk, the commute timed, hand-sourced apartments a TMC can't touch. Every booking goes direct on your corporate cards. No supplier contracts, no held funds, no markup.

£0 for your mini Trip Design preview £49 per trip to unlock the full Trip Design · satisfaction guaranteed 100% of bookings in your own name
£49-£99 per trip · volume pricing from 10 0 supplier contracts to onboard 100% of travel spend direct on your cards
Sample Trip Design · real prices
Cape Town, designed
REF
RWC-2417
BriefCouple · wellness + outdoors
RouteLondon → Cape Town, direct
Length2 weeks · Jan
Wifi214 Mbps, tested in-room
TimezoneGMT+2 · full UK overlap
All-in for two£3,980 · under budget
● Ready to bookOpen the Trip Design →
Sample employee trip · real prices
Barcelona, designed
REF
RWC-T-2207
BriefWork-from-abroad · product manager
RouteLondon → Barcelona, direct
Length3 weeks · May
Wifi203 Mbps, tested in-flat
TimezoneCET · one hour from London
All-in for one£2,140 · within policy
● Ready to bookOpen the Trip Design →
Sample Trip Design · real prices
Berlin, designed
REF
RWC-B-1108
BriefAssignment · senior engineer
RouteLondon → Berlin, direct
Length4 weeks · Mar
Wifi187 Mbps, tested in-flat
TimezoneGMT+1 · one hour from London
All-in for one£3,213 · under budget
● Ready to bookOpen the Trip Design →
How it works

From brief to booked in four honest steps.

No packages, no markups, no money held. We're paid a small design fee, and that's the whole relationship.

01

Brief us

A three-minute quiz: where you're flying from, when, your budget, and what your workday can't live without.

Free
02

Get your mini trip design

Your destination match, budget verdict and week-by-week shape, researched against live prices for your actual dates.

Free · arrives same day
03

Unlock the Trip Design

Every name revealed: the exact flights, the verified apartment, workspaces, experiences, each with a direct booking link.

£49 per trip, not per person · refundable
04

Book it yourself

Top-to-bottom in about forty minutes, direct with each provider, in your name, with full consumer protections. We stay on call.

Your money goes to them, not us
01

Brief us per trip

Each assignment gets a two-minute brief: who's going, which city, how long, and what their workday can't live without.

Free
02

Trip Design to your inbox

Flights, a verified base near the office or the brief, workspace and transfers: researched against live prices, duty-of-care vetted, HR summary included.

£49-£99 per trip · volume pricing from 10
03

Book on your cards

You or the traveller books each line direct with the provider on a corporate card. Provider receipts, no held funds, nothing to onboard through procurement.

Zero markup on travel
04

We stay on call

Extensions, replans, a flight that moves, a designer answers within a working day for the length of the assignment.

Included
Why we're different

Designed by people who've taken the 9am call from the other hemisphere.

Verified, not claimed

Listings say "fast wifi." We say "214 Mbps, speed-tested in that room, on that date". We check backup power, desk quality and call-proof quiet the same way.

Timezone-first design

Every trip is built backwards from your working hours, so the mountains, the ocean and the golden hours happen around your calendar, not instead of it.

Your bookings, your name

We're a design service, not a travel agent. Every reservation is direct with the airline, the apartment, the operators: full protections, loyalty points, freedom to change anything.

Curated from the data

Behind every proposal sits a platform that continuously aggregates and weighs huge volumes of pricing, reviews and connectivity signals across destinations. That's how a three-minute brief becomes a sharply curated trip, expertise distilled, not a guess.

How we know

Expertise, distilled into one trip.

Designing a working month abroad badly is easy: a listing lies about the wifi, a "central" flat sits on a party street, the timezone quietly eats your mornings. Designing it well takes data most people never see. Our platform does that work continuously, so you get the answer, not the 40 tabs.

Live
pricing pulled for your actual dates, not last year's averages
Millions
of reviews and data points weighed across destinations and stays
In-room
connectivity verified before anything reaches your proposal
Where the briefs go

Pick a timezone. Keep your 9am.

Every destination is scored on overlap with your team’s hours, verified connectivity, and what stepping outside feels like in January. A few favourites, and the list keeps growing:

Before you even book

Need to get it signed off first?

Most people don't struggle to want the trip, they struggle to get the yes. So we made the approval pack: two short documents. A private prep guide that coaches you through the conversation, and a clean, shareable brief, built to forward to your manager and People team, that shows the trip has been properly thought through. Free, and yours in seconds.

  • A private prep guide: scripts and how to approach each conversation
  • A shareable brief: manager case plus an HR duty-of-care checklist
  • Both yours instantly, the brief is safe to forward, the guide is just for you
Get the approval pack

Pop in your email (personal is best, you'll want this after you've left a job too) and we'll send both documents over, plus you can download them on the next screen.

Free. No card. We'll occasionally follow up about designing the trip itself, unsubscribe anytime.
The part nobody tells you

You probably already have permission.

More UK employers than ever now offer a work-from-abroad policy, and the large majority go unused, because the planning is the barrier, not the permission. The allowance is often already sitting in your handbook. We help you find it, make the case for a specific trip, and design the trip itself.

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For People & HR

A policy people actually use.

You introduced work-from-abroad to attract and keep good people. But the policy is only as valuable as the number of people who take it up, and right now, for most companies, that number is close to zero. Planning a working month abroad is daunting, so the allowance quietly sits in the handbook doing nothing. We are the layer that turns it into a perk your people genuinely use, without adding a thing to your team's plate.

2 min
of HR time per trip, we do the design, you approve
£0
held by us, ever; people book directly, on their own cards
1 page
HR-ready summary on every trip: durations, duty of care, dates

The perk finally lands

A designed, ready-to-book trip turns "you're allowed to" into something people act on. The policy starts earning the recruiting pull and retention you wrote it for, instead of being a sentence nobody uses.

Controlled by design

Every trip ships with policy-compliant durations and a duty-of-care summary, so people travel prepared, not improvising. You keep oversight; we remove the legwork. Nothing about this creates new HR exposure.

An approval pack, for them

We give your people a private prep guide and a clean, shareable brief, so when they come to you the request is already thought through. Fewer half-formed asks, better conversations, faster yeses.

Nothing to onboard

No supplier contracts, no procurement, no platform to roll out. We're a design service that sits alongside your existing policy. You can pilot it on a single employee next week.

Why it pays for itself

Replacing one person who leaves costs months of salary in hiring and ramp-up. Enabling a few weeks abroad costs a £49 design fee, paid by the employee. A policy people actually use is one of the cheapest retention and employer-brand levers you have, if someone removes the friction. That's the entire job we do.

Make approvals easy

Give your managers a clear way to say yes.

The reason work-from-abroad requests stall is rarely real risk, it's that managers have no consistent way to approve them. So we made a short manager-and-HR checklist: the questions worth asking, what good looks like, and where to draw the line. Hand it to your approvers and a yes becomes a simple, repeatable decision. Free, and yours in seconds.

  • A seven-point sign-off checklist: continuity, durations, duty of care, end date
  • Three clear outcomes: straightforward yes, yes-with-a-condition, or take a closer look
  • Pairs with the brief your employees bring, so approvals are quick and consistent
Get the approval checklist

Enter your work email and we'll send the manager & HR checklist over, plus you can download it on the next screen.

Free. No card. We'll occasionally follow up about helping your team, unsubscribe anytime.
Where your people go

From easy wins to the real escape.

Activating a work-from-abroad policy works best when the first trips are easy yeses, same-timezone and low-friction, building to the destinations people dream about. A blend your team can grow into:

For mobility, ops & EAs

Business trips, designed properly.

A corporate travel desk books a flight and a chain hotel and calls the job done. Then your engineer lands for a month-long assignment and loses two days to slow wifi, a room with nowhere to work, and a forty-minute commute nobody checked. We design the whole stay instead, more specifically than a TMC ever could, so the person is productive from the first morning. Inbound or outbound, one trip or fifty.

0%
markup on travel; the price you'd pay direct is the price you pay
1 portfolio
per trip, every cost on your corporate cards with provider receipts
Day 1
productive, the stay is set up to work before they land

Bespoke, not block-booked

The right apartment or aparthotel for the actual trip, including hand-sourced homes and stays a travel desk simply can't reach, in the right neighbourhood for the office, not the nearest chain by the airport.

Verified, in that room

Internet speed-tested in the specific unit before booking, with backup power and a quiet-for-calls check. "Fast wifi" in a listing means nothing; a tested number on the date means everything.

Finance-clean by default

Every booking goes direct on your corporate cards, with provider receipts and one tidy portfolio per trip. No markup, no held funds, no supplier to onboard. Finance sees exactly what was spent, where.

Inbound and outbound

Sending someone to Berlin for a month, or bringing a new hire into London? We design trips into your city as readily as out of it, with the same verified, audit-ready standard.

Often cheaper than the alternative

A serviced-apartment desk adds a margin to every night; a TMC adds a booking fee. We add neither, the £49 or £99 design fee is the whole cost, and the travel is booked direct at the real price. You typically get a better stay, set up to actually work, for less than the marked-up version, with a cleaner paper trail.

Where teams travel

The trips that have to land working.

Office weeks, client stints, project assignments. We design for the cities your people actually get sent to, with the stay built around the working day, not a chain hotel by the airport:

Two tiers, one flat fee per trip
Standard

Hotel & aparthotel base

Verified aparthotels and serviced stays with instant confirmation. Right for most trips.

£49 per trip
Premium

Apartment & home stays

Hand-sourced apartments and home-style stays: host vetting, per-property wifi checks, length-of-stay negotiation. More manual, more particular.

£99 per trip
Volume pricing from 10 trips·No supplier contracts·No funds held·Pilot on a single trip

The Remote Work Concierge is a trip design service, not a travel agent and not a legal, tax or immigration adviser. Your people book every element directly with each provider, on your corporate cards. Entry rules, tax thresholds and work-authorisation vary, always confirm with the relevant authorities and a qualified adviser before booking.

Fair questions

Asked before you ask.

Why wouldn't I just plan this myself?
You absolutely can. It takes most people 20-40 hours across a dozen tabs, and the things that ruin working trips (wifi that tests at a tenth of the listing, "quiet" flats on nightlife streets, timezone maths that eats your mornings) don't show up in reviews. We've done the verification once so you don't gamble two months on it.
What exactly does the £49 buy?
The full Trip Design: named flights with live fares, the exact verified apartment, workspace memberships, experiences matched to your brief, a week-by-week plan, a clear cost breakdown, and direct booking links for all of it, plus one full redesign if the first version isn't right, and a designer on call for your whole trip. One fee covers the whole trip and everyone on it: £49 per Trip Design, never per person. If it's still not right, the £49 comes back.
How do you make money beyond the £49?
Some booking links pay us a small referral commission at no cost to you. It never affects what we recommend: every option is chosen before we check whether it pays, and we tell you which links are referrals.
Do you handle my bookings or hold my money?
Never. We design; you book directly with each provider under their terms, in your name. That keeps your consumer protections intact and your money out of anyone's middle layer, including ours.
Is working abroad even allowed: visas, tax, my employer?
For typical stays inside your employer's policy window it's well-trodden ground, and your Trip Design includes the entry requirements for your passport plus the HR-ready summary. We're not lawyers or tax advisers though. Anything beyond standard policy lengths, we'll flag and point you to proper advice.
Are you a travel supplier we'd need to onboard?
No, and that's the point. We're a design service: there's no agency contract, no held client money, and no travel spend flowing through us. The only commercial relationship is a per-trip design fee, invoiced monthly. Everything bookable goes direct between you and each provider, on your cards, under their terms.
Can you bring people into a city, not just send them abroad?
Yes, inbound assignments are the same product. Someone joining you in London for a month gets the same Trip Design: a verified base near your office, workspace, transfers from the airport, and a practical file for settling in fast.
What about duty of care?
Every base is vetted for neighbourhood, backup power and connectivity; every Trip Design names exactly where your person is staying and working, with a designer on call throughout. Because bookings are direct and in their name, your existing travel-safety and insurance arrangements apply unchanged.
What does the £99 premium trip add?
Apartment and home-style stays instead of hotels: we hand-source individual properties, vet the host, verify the wifi per property and negotiate length-of-stay rates. That takes real hours per trip, which is what the higher fee covers. The standard £49 trip sticks to verified aparthotels with instant confirmation.