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Comment by amalrik_maia | Hacker News Reader

this https://weworkremotely.com/ is really interesting but I notice a lot of jobs require the candidate to be an US resident, that doesn't make any sense to me.

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Well, it's usually due to taxes. The company I work for hires people from other countries officially as contractors, otherwise they would need to maintain a legal presence in every country that they hire in - or so I'm told.

tks @spraak for clarifying.

Yes, this is a difficult issue. At GitLab we have people in more than 30 countries. In the majority of countries we have contractors, in some (US/NL/UK) we have a company, in some we hire through a reseller (India/China), and in Belgium we can hire on the Dutch payroll due to the EU. I hope someone starts the Stripe/Adyen for payrolling people. If you plan to do so please email me so I can help with advise and be your first customer and investor.

EDIT I made a blog post about this https://gitlab.com/sytses/sytses.gitlab.io/commit/e9a000d321...

please take a look https://www.bitwage.com/

How does it work exactly?

It seems to be more about the payment than the employment.

A good idea. Also non-trivial to do, which would give a moat if executed well.

Btw. This seems to be a more readable version of the URL, one that you posted linked to git commit https://sytse.com/2016/12/28/adyen-for-payrolling.html

Thanks for posting the proper link.

If your schedule permits, you should definitely blog more often. Your comments here are so well thought out.

PS: Gitlab is awesome, keep up the good work.

Thanks anondon, that is very kind of you to comment.

Why would they not just hire people as contractors (instead of turning every non-US-resident down)? That's how I've been working for years and it's better for me as well as for the company.

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