Startups actually do exist outside of the US, believe it or not. And you may find that those are a lot less picky than US ones about the location of remote workers.
UK based here, and HMRC (the UK tax man) is quite picky too. It is, as others have noted, a hassle to hire outside of your government's jurisdiction for many legal reasons, tax being the first of them but not the last.
Medium-sized companies will have a "legal entity" in e.g. EU and US as well, and can hire workers in those polities. The workers are then "employed" by the legal entity for HR purposes, regardless of where their immediate co-workers are located.
There are also legal limits on how many days per year one can work "abroad" - company policies on this do vary, but HMRC imposes strict constraints on what is allowed. A max of several weeks per year is what I've seen. Also it's not from "any country", it excludes the ones on this list: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/financial-sanction...
SideburnsOfDoom|2 years ago
Medium-sized companies will have a "legal entity" in e.g. EU and US as well, and can hire workers in those polities. The workers are then "employed" by the legal entity for HR purposes, regardless of where their immediate co-workers are located.
There are also legal limits on how many days per year one can work "abroad" - company policies on this do vary, but HMRC imposes strict constraints on what is allowed. A max of several weeks per year is what I've seen. Also it's not from "any country", it excludes the ones on this list: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/financial-sanction...