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Ask HN: What are some good fully work from anywhere companies?

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By good fully work from anywhere companies I mean: Safetywing, Supabase, Convertkit, Automattic, etc.

I am building my academic research around fully distributed teams and also building a job board for such jobs at the same time.

The common issue I see is that most companies that says work from anywhere are not truly work from anywhere, they restrict based on location/timezone. So, it's harder to spot fully worldwide remote companies.

There are dozens of problems when it comes to international hiring/ work from anywhere. So, not all companies can do that. I understand that.

I need your help to identify some best work from anywhere companies for my study. Please let me know if you know any.

The problems on hiring are mostly self imposed. I said mostly because there are some countries you can't trade with very easily. If you're hiring in the USA / Europe your problems are all self imposed.

Everybody insists on hiring employees while they could work with the same people if they worked through their own local company - and it could very well means the "employee" would receive 20-60% extra, due to being more tax efficient. There are some complications in regards to giving shares but they can be sorted.

There are also third party companies that hire you in a specific country and charge 500-1000$ per month to do payrolls - but I wouldn't recommend: you lose on the tax benefits for the employee, the employee is still not your employee.

Gitlab, without any doubt

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/

Nice product and culture but localised pay for remote means you can do better salary wise if you live in a LCOL. Last time when they had the open calculator it wasn't worth it, I was making more working remote for unknown companies in UK / Switzerland than I would working for GitLab as a manager.

That's also how you can save FANG money without dealing with performance reviews or other FANG bs politics: high (but not FANG high) pay somewhere, low cost of living and minimal taxes.

uh, good to know

I though differences were about minimal

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