[cornholio]

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.

[vladvasiliu]

Anecdotally, this is the setup I was offered for a remote job in an EU country different from the one in which I live. They didn't necesarily want a big company, either. They seemed fine with a company-of-one (there's no "freelance" status as far as my country's administration is concerned).