> it feels like "bait and switch". It's like hiring me in Bratislava, giving me a small (net) salary and ask me to work from London. Many IT companies in Brati

> it feels like "bait and switch". It's like hiring me in Bratislava, giving me a small (net) salary and ask me to work from London. Many IT companies in Bratislava hire local people for local salaries... and then make them travel to other countries exactly 49% of the year (so they still pay taxes locally); the remaining 51% of time working for a foreign client remotely from a local office. My friend had a job where he had to fly to a Western country every Monday morning, and fly back home every Friday evening, to maximize the number of working days within that 49% of the year. (This way you can work abroad for 36 weeks a year, instead of "mere" 26.) And of course he had to spend 8 hours working each Monday or Friday, so he left home on Monday soon after midnight, and arrived home on Friday shortly before midnight, so he basically spent the whole weekend sleeping. (He already quit that job.)