Show HN: Repo with a list of 80 decent companies hiring remotely in Europe (opens in new tab)

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cornholio2y ago· 12 in thread

I always wondered why US companies are almost universally interested only in Remote/US candidates when there are millions of qualified world-wide applicants ready to work remotely on US hours. There exists companies that act employers of record allowing you to hire remote workers all over the world, and other than the internet connection lag, there should be no impact for a remote employee.

There must be some untapped business opportunity / startup potential here, US companies are limiting themselves to a small pool of applicants for no apparent reason. Is it because of the cultural differences they perceive? Are the existing EOR services lacking in some regard?

DoingIsLearning2y ago

Most probably the hassle/liability of messing up taxes.

If you are hiring someone abroad the simplest way still is to hire it out as contract work.

cornholio2y ago

That's the service that an employer of record provides: they hire the worker locally and deal with all resulting payroll & tax complications, liability under local labor laws etc. while the US company pays a flat hourly fee to an overseas service provider.

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dorianmariefr2y ago

remote.com makes it easy

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dudul2y ago

Timezone, culture, taxes, regulation.

Also, I see no problems with companies trying to hire domestically. Keeps the money in the country and people are able to buy products, including the ones provided by the company.

Finally, is this only a US thing? Do companies in Europe or Canada hire abroad more willingly?

bityard2y ago

What makes you believe that this is a US-only phenomenon? I almost never see remote jobs in countries like Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, or Finland that are open to foreign workers in different timezones.

saasxyz2y ago

as someone from outside of US, I have the same question as you. Part of the reason for this is time zone issues, legal issues, and some additional management overhead.

But luckily, there are many companies that actually prefer to hire employees from anywhere and are fully globally remote. The problem is discovery because most big remote job boards actually prefer Remote/US jobs as there is lot of money in it.

I built a simple app to curate fully globally remote jobs for global talent to find jobs: https://realworkfromanywhere.com/

Hope it is useful.

hartator2y ago

Mostly law, taxes, and various regulation. US to US is pretty straightforward, the rest of the world is not.

quickthrower22y ago

There are many US companies hiring abroad. But if they make the effort to do this, are they going to hire someone from Europe for $100k/y or just go to the cheapest country and get them for $50k/y or less? They'll go to the cheapest countries, in the same time zone. So.. Latin America. You won't see their job ad.

SkyPuncher2y ago

Lots of compliance issues come up. If you’re dealing with another company’s data, especially a large company, they may not be comfortable with their risk exposure in a “random” country.

jimmychoozyx2y ago

US Companies often won't even let US employees work in US States where that company does not already have an office, or is not already set up with some sort of accounting (tax) services.

Also, some US Companies don't allow US Citizens to work remotely abroad due to data restrictions or other concern about sensitive data regulations.

calvinmorrison2y ago

Because Americans like working with other Americans why does there need to be a reason. Its simple and easy, shared culture, same laws for the most part, shared expectations, ease of communication both time and language. Why do we need to justify it!

hkt2y ago

Because it does not make economic sense. Also because that is comically inward looking and has a whiff of racism about it on the "shared culture" side..

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uoaei2y ago· 5 in thread

What, pray tell, does "decent" mean in this context?

tokai2y ago

Means they made the list. Oracle is on it, so decent can't be used in the popular sense here.