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> I work for a fully remote company with employees from all over the world, including Eastern Europe, and we didn't need to partner with any local company Beca
by smileybarry 1y ago
> I work for a fully remote company with employees from all over the world, including Eastern Europe, and we didn't need to partner with any local company
Because your company already has considerable experience in working remotely in another territory, of course they didn't need any help. Or potentially, they were already contracting a firm for local bureaucratic matters.
> Plus it was never mentioned what these "local partners" get in return
Money? They could sell these bureaucratic services at a markup, where they have experience with the paperwork etc. part of expanding internationally.
Additionally, another commenter said they offloaded some worse talent on them[1], so that's another possible benefit to them.
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45500737 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45500737
And to cover the astroturfing allegations in this thread: no, I don't work for or have any relationship with ProtonVPN, other than being a user.
- oefrha 1y ago> Because your company already has considerable experience in working remotely in another territory, of course they didn't need any help. What are you talking about, my company was fully remote with global employees from day one. And no, our CEO/CFO haven’t founded or worked for another fully remote company before that. This is not a radical concept at all, especially not here on HN.
- smileybarry 1y agoA company operating fully remote with global employees still has to do some bureaucratic work with the countries of their employees for payroll purposes. That's what I meant by the experience they had with this.