We have a pretty geographically diverse remote team. It's wildly complicated to deal with, both from a team side and the HR side. Coordinating conversations wit

We have a pretty geographically diverse remote team. It's wildly complicated to deal with, both from a team side and the HR side. Coordinating conversations with everyone when they're spread all over the world leaves very few possible times and those times are needed by everyone, so there's a lot of meeting collision. And employment law is different everywhere. You can't afford to setup "offices" in every location, so everyone is a contractor/consultant. They work full time and have an equity plan but it's all a bunch of little personal businesses. Focusing on a few key locations makes this more manageable. Big companies can afford the investment into many small locations and they can afford having the regional expertise to avoid running afoul of local and federal governments. In an ideal world, we'd make this easy for ourselves but the world is not ideal.