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We have many EU-based employees, all working remotely. Our working time zones span from Sydney through India, EU, EST, and a couple of outliers in MST and PST.

We do care (and check) that you’re legally allowed to work where you live, but other than that, I’d expect there are high hundreds (likely thousands) of companies hiring remotely who are in a similar boat.

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Where are you based out of?

I'm not in the EU, but rather in Turkiye. I'm a US citizen, and though it's legal to work here for companies who don't have a local presence, the HR departments at American companies tend to get cold feet.

I'm curious how you check? I ended up hiring a lawyer to research legality here. A site that explains all of these for any region would be pretty sweet.

I’m personally based in the US, but we have local entities in several EU countries and a “mobility team” (part of HR) that does the research for us, using a mix of in-house expertise and outside counsel. We have a list of countries for which we’ve already done the research (for our own facts and circumstances) to know whether and how we could employ people there and if I want to hire someone in a new place not on the list, they research it and make recommendations.

It’s not something easily amenable to a definitive and simple chart (as I understand it, but that’s coming from the experts we pay a lot to to answer these questions).

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