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There's a simple work around for visa hell in the US: move your (tech) business to Europe. Lots of talent, lower employee costs, liberal immigration laws, choic
by nutjob2 8y ago
There's a simple work around for visa hell in the US: move your (tech) business to Europe. Lots of talent, lower employee costs, liberal immigration laws, choice of legal and tax jurisdictions. Really, it's got it all.
- dragontamer 8y agoWouldn't European tech companies be subject to GPDR and other such regulations in the European market? I think move to Canada makes the most sense. Similar laws to the USA, close and a similar set of advantages that you've described.
- dominotw 8y ago> similar set of advantages that you've described. low salaries, high taxes/cost of living, less jobs and less dynamic job market.
- delecti 8y agoGDPR only applies to data of users who are in the EU. A company with users solely in the US is no more affected by GDPR if their developers are in the EU than they are if their developers are in the US or India. Similarly, a company with users in the EU is already affected by the GDPR even if their developers are not in the EU.
- DanBC 8y agoIf you operate from the EU GDPR applies to all your users. (3.1) If you operate outside the EU GDPR will apply to all your EU users if you are offering goods or services, or monitoring their behaviour in the Union. (3.2) https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/ https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
- ardfie 8y agoI don’t think it’s useful to describe ‘Europe’ like this. From country to country you can have large differences in availability of candidates, expected salaries, immigration laws, and regulations and customs around running a business.
- secfirstmd 8y agoYeh. Ireland is easy for all of these things compared to say, Hungary.
- nutjob2 8y agoThat's my point, that's why I said Europe. What is the downside of choice?
- samueldavid 8y agowhy not hire remote?
- ozim 8y agoYou have to have good people on site who can work with remote workers first. So you can make clear requirements. They also have to feel secure about their jobs. Otherwise they will not cooperate and blame remote workers. Just hire remote is not an answer for a lot of companies. If you think you can just do some programming job in fire and forget you are going to be surprised. You have to actually think about what task to give to remote team and what not. What areas are strong for who and divide work accordingly it is a lot of work in itself. Last but not least, there is ton of legal stuff, compliance, what type of customers you are tending to. Some big corps own specific parts of code and sending something outside country could get you into trouble.
- dominotw 8y ago> liberal immigration laws Getting a german work visa for Indians is not easy. They don't have "liberal immigration laws" , just less competition than H1B.
- tathougies 8y agoDon't most European countries have a point-based immigration system?
- craigsmansion 8y agoIt might be the OP is referring to immigration from within the EU: setup in Ireland, then hire from lower-wage countries within in the EU.
- nutjob2 8y agoI was thinking about the EU, but Russia and Ukraine are also great sources of programmers.
- nutjob2 8y agoNope.