Kind of. There are companies that provide this service (the ability to pay people in different countries). You can Google "Employee of Record" (EoR) or "Profess

Kind of. There are companies that provide this service (the ability to pay people in different countries). You can Google "Employee of Record" (EoR) or "Professional Employer Organization". A few more modern providers that cater to tech startups specifically are Deel and Pilot. Basically they let you pay anyone in any country, and easily draft locally compliant contracts. Often they'll ask you to set yourself up as a local entity in the company you want to be paid, so you might lose some benefits (you'd be more of a contractor than an employee). That said, it's never fully plug-and-play. If you're small enough you can skirt some of the complications, but every country has very different laws around mandated time off, taxes, social security, the ability to classify a worker as a contractor vs employee, benefits, protections like whether/how you can lay someone off, etc. So it's doable, but it's not seamless.