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we stopped hiring remote workers after experiencing massive amounts of employment fraud (multiple jobs, lying about who they were) and extremely low quality candidates despite good offers

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Two reasons why this probably happened. 1) you paid too little, and 2) you probably had people in-office too so the remote employees were second class workers. The solution is simple: pay above market rates and create a truly remote culture.

Doesn't matter. Do u think frauds will not apply to 2 jobs because one pays well ? Hiring remote is a lot harder and requires a lot more trust on both sides. Employers are finding that if they have the supply locally, they can choose not to do full remote. Right now, it is an employer market so they can do this.

Nah, I've heard of people doing 150k$ x2 which is a lot better than 150k$.

If they can keep up both of their jobs and the contract allows it, I don't see the problem.

The reality is that a lot of jobs don't require that much time and low performing people can go unnoticed for years.

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With that said, what was the typical salary for one of those positions?

We do get a lot of fake applications but they're fairly easy to filter.

Employment fraud can't be avoided, monitoring performance is hard and the economy is harsh enough people feel justified pulling multiple jobs.

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