[literallycancer]

Looks like they are starting with larger countries, possibly because they are actually looking into the employment law there?

I wonder what the benefits of having remote employees are, compared to remote workforce without employee status?

[lugged]

They're most likely outsourcing it, that list is too random and one shot to be any epxertise grown in house.

In any case, I'm still skeptical, they could have been paying people in USD as contractors since day dot if that was the real problem, but its not, its timezones.

[gbear605]

According to Stripe employees in the thread, the problem is that Stripe works in a heavily regulated industry (credit card processing) and that introduces difficulties that couldn’t be solved by paying people as contractors