There's very little incentive for any company (even big ones) to deal with the headache of treating foreigners as employees of their company when they do not ha

There's very little incentive for any company (even big ones) to deal with the headache of treating foreigners as employees of their company when they do not have a local office. The simplest way to overcome that is for the companies to "contract" work to you and possibly bundle all your insurance and other needs into that contractual payment.