What this policy is
Defines the security and operational expectations for personnel working outside the corporate office — home, travel, co-working — covering devices, networks, physical environment and incident reporting.
Why every organization needs one
Remote work expanded the attack surface to every employee's home network. A policy that sets the expectation is the basis for endpoint hardening, VPN/ZTNA enforcement, and physical-security guidance.
What a competent Remote Work Policy typically contains
- Purpose and scope
- Roles and responsibilities
- Definitions
- Approved-environment baseline
- Network requirements (no public Wi-Fi without VPN, etc.)
- Physical-security guidance
- Incident-reporting from remote
- Review cadence (typically annual) and version control
- Approval, sign-off and effective date
How iCompaas tracks this policy
The icompaas policy-doc producer manages this document through an 8-state lifecycle: draft → generated → internal_qa → customer_review → in_review → approved → signed (with rejected as a terminal side-state). The producer publishes a policy_doc_remote_work_policy_signed compliance finding once at least one document of this kind reaches the signed state for the account being assessed; the finding then rolls up into every compliance framework that references this policy (see the table below).
Compliance frameworks that reference this policy
The icompaas compliance controls library links every policy document to the controls in each framework that require, evidence, or otherwise rely on it. Below: every control across every framework in the iCompaas catalogue that names this policy as part of its evidence base. Each control links to its own dedicated page with auditor-view content + implementation guidance.
| Framework | Control | Title | Component |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC 27001:2022 | A.6.7 | Remote working | People controls |
1 control across 1 framework reference this policy.
About this page
This article is part of the iCompaas Policy Documents library — one page per signed-document type the icompaas policy-doc producer tracks for customer accounts. The article is intentionally framework-agnostic: a customer signing a policy of this kind gets the same regulatory benefit across every framework that references it.