[celestialcheese]

Payroll 100%. When we started hiring people remote it was the biggest surprise, and most headache.

Trying to figure it out on your own is irresponsible at best, so it boils down to hiring a local CPA or tax attorney in each state/city you hire in to go over the implications of bringing someone on in that city.

If the person is right, it's worth the cost, but it's a large, unexpected time-suck.

[krallja]

This problem is already fairly well solved by professional employer organizations like Justworks, Paychex, Extensis HR, etc.

[Kiro]

And if you're hiring someone in another country?

[krallja]

I don’t know what the best answer is. We currently treat international employees as contractors.