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Exactly. This is quite common and is done all the time for remote workers, myself included. The hiring company cannot treat you as a regular employee though (y

Exactly. This is quite common and is done all the time for remote workers, myself included. The hiring company cannot treat you as a regular employee though (you are essentially a contractor), so you may have less 'rights' than a regular employee - i.e. your contract can likely be terminated a lot easier than a regular employment one. You may also not be able to get some benefits that a regular employee gets - ie contributions to pension funds, etc. These are often compensated by simply increasing your daily rate. I personally prefer it that way as I often find the benefits offered by the companies unnecessary. There are also companies like deel.com that offer employers to hire people through their local branch office in pretty much every country in the world. FWIW I haven't used any myself but I have heard good things. Hence I honestly consider remote working to be a solved problem already, but to each his own.

xtracto 5y ago
With respect of working rights, sometimes it goes the other way: I've worked for American companies from Mexico through a PEO (the ones in charge of hiring you). Given that these usually hire you as a full time employee, you are protected by the state rights. In Mexico that entails several things: Access to social healthcare, at least 25% of vacation bonus (additional pay for each vacation day you take), 3 months severance if the company fires you at will, compulsory contribution to the 401k equivalent, among others. At some point us working in Mexico like this had better benefits than our peers in the US.
- maccard 5y ago
  > At some point us working in Mexico like this had better benefits than our peers in the US. I work for a small company who has set up a legal entity to employ me and others in the UK while being based in the US themselves. Our US employees outnumber our UK employees 20:1 and yet our UK employees have better benefits than the US employees, _and_ we cost less for an equal salary (basically US healthcare is so expensive that it ends up being roughly equivalent to employing people in countries where you don't have to pay 10% of someone's compensation on healthcare) even when you have to put up with all the legal headaches

xtracto 5y ago

With respect of working rights, sometimes it goes the other way: I've worked for American companies from Mexico through a PEO (the ones in charge of hiring you). Given that these usually hire you as a full time employee, you are protected by the state rights. In Mexico that entails several things: Access to social healthcare, at least 25% of vacation bonus (additional pay for each vacation day you take), 3 months severance if the company fires you at will, compulsory contribution to the 401k equivalent, among others. At some point us working in Mexico like this had better benefits than our peers in the US.

maccard 5y ago
> At some point us working in Mexico like this had better benefits than our peers in the US. I work for a small company who has set up a legal entity to employ me and others in the UK while being based in the US themselves. Our US employees outnumber our UK employees 20:1 and yet our UK employees have better benefits than the US employees, _and_ we cost less for an equal salary (basically US healthcare is so expensive that it ends up being roughly equivalent to employing people in countries where you don't have to pay 10% of someone's compensation on healthcare) even when you have to put up with all the legal headaches