[spraak]

Well, it's usually due to taxes. The company I work for hires people from other countries officially as contractors, otherwise they would need to maintain a legal presence in every country that they hire in - or so I'm told.

[sytse]

Yes, this is a difficult issue. At GitLab we have people in more than 30 countries. In the majority of countries we have contractors, in some (US/NL/UK) we have a company, in some we hire through a reseller (India/China), and in Belgium we can hire on the Dutch payroll due to the EU. I hope someone starts the Stripe/Adyen for payrolling people. If you plan to do so please email me so I can help with advise and be your first customer and investor.

EDIT I made a blog post about this https://gitlab.com/sytses/sytses.gitlab.io/commit/e9a000d321...

[dirtyaura]

A good idea. Also non-trivial to do, which would give a moat if executed well.

Btw. This seems to be a more readable version of the URL, one that you posted linked to git commit https://sytse.com/2016/12/28/adyen-for-payrolling.html

[sytse]

Thanks for posting the proper link.

[anondon]

If your schedule permits, you should definitely blog more often. Your comments here are so well thought out.

PS: Gitlab is awesome, keep up the good work.

[sytse]

Thanks anondon, that is very kind of you to comment.

[amalrik_maia]

please take a look https://www.bitwage.com/

[Kiro]

How does it work exactly?

[sytse]

It seems to be more about the payment than the employment.

[StavrosK]

Why would they not just hire people as contractors (instead of turning every non-US-resident down)? That's how I've been working for years and it's better for me as well as for the company.

[amalrik_maia]

tks @spraak for clarifying.