Barclays to track employee location (Again...) Any VPN recommendation that works with Citrix?

Hi,

Ahead of the X-Mas holidays, Barclays has decided to make it a spear point of their IT team to track from where there employees are remote logging in. They prohibited people from going back to their home countries even though we in the London office haven't been in our office since early March. Their idea is that if we stay abroad it can have tax implications, even though there are tax treaties across Europe that allows everybody to work abroad for c. 6 months.

So does somebody have a good VPN that would show me working in the UK whilst working within Europe? We use Citrix receiver to remote login into our desktops.

Thanks for any tips!

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No I mean that Citrix can't do shit. A VPN redirects all your internet traffic, therefore any software connecting to an external platform will only do so through the VPN server. The thing to understand is that your computer does not know its external IP address. The same way that you have to use a mirror to know what your face looks like, a computer has to connect to an external server (website, anything) to know what its IP address is. Any software trying to connect to Internet on your computer will be forced to do so through the VPN server, therefore only the VPN server's IP address will appear to the platform on the other side.

 
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That doesn’t mean that they can’t track the location. How do you think sports books are able to block people even with the use of VPN? There is more to it than that. I wouldn’t risk it if I were you OP. If they are openly telling you that they are monitoring, I can promise you that they have indefinitely more resources to catch you than you have to hide your location. But that’s just my two cents.

 

The institution has really gone down in the last few years and during COVID is has only become worse.

They didn't want to provide any equipment and were told to purchase it ourselves. In the end they offered equipment in August, when everybody had already bought their equipment. 

When the UK Gov, told everybody to continue working from home, Barclays sent out a message to all team heads that they wanted to come back into the office. It didn't happen as the UK Gov and Regulator told Barclays they shouldn't do that (as a well known institution it would be picked up by The Sun and the likes and send the wrong message to the UK People).

In the Frankfurt office juniors were told that they needed to come in, despite governments advice not to. When juniors expressed concerns about the fact that everybody was coughing and that they didn't feel comfortable in the office they got presented the option: i) Suck it up and have a shot at a bonus; ii) WFH, but do not expect a bonus (all verbally ofc, over e-mail the tone is very different).

And ofc appointing two people who have never done a days work of front office banking being appointed the head of Banking and Markets was the biggest joke ever. The Banking division is now run by an IT project manager, and working with the Barclays IT daily I can tell you... It is not impressive what so ever...

The people 'on the ground' are nice, smart and hard working, but the institution is going down hill fast unfortunately.

 

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