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If you hire someone in another country, you (employer) must fully comply with local labor laws, tax requirements, run payroll and pay any local dues in local currency.
This is only solved by either setting up a local office and hire local experts yourself, or working with an employer of record.
Source: I'm the CEO of Remote.com and we do this for other companies across the world, and run all our own entities and compliance.
Thanks for the answer and stating your background ;)
I see how this is true in general, but aren’t there special cases e.g. within the EU, between the EU and the UK, or when an employee moves country while still being employed, where simpler solutions may exist?
There are cases and/or ways where you can e.g. hire someone under a local contract without owning a local entity, but that doesn't scale much beyond that, and you'd still need to run local payroll somehow, and be locally compliant.
The one big thing the EU solves is mobility: any EU citizen can work freely from anywhere else in the EU. That's a massive hurdle to cross otherwise.
Beyond that, even between EU countries there are absolutely massive differences in labor laws, standards, etc.
Ok. But when working through a EoR, will the employee be employed by the EoR or the company for which the work is done?
And how is the situation when the employees come in from time to time (commuting across borders) but work the majority of their time in another country?
The employee would be employed by the EoR on paper. Hence employer _of record_. But otherwise acts as a normal employee of the actual employer.
> And how is the situation when the employees come in from time to time (commuting across borders) but work the majority of their time in another country?
This is a gross simplification, but:
You must comply with where you spend the majority of your time. Spending a few days/weeks outside of your homebase is normal (see: all business travel) and doesn't make you immediately liable.
That said, this gets really complex and murky when you think about e.g. nomads or people that really split their time between countries.
OK, thanks! That's really interesting and helpful. By the way, I'm sure you are aware, there's a ton of universities in the UK who right now have exactly this problem: Lecturers/professors/researchers living somewhere in the EU and commuting in for a few days per week during the semester. Their HR departments are freaking out because of it. They could use some help and maybe a special deal :wink: :wink:
For that matter, I'm not sure how well nomadism AFAICT is really handled within the US. Systems are not really setup for people to not have permanent addresses with respect to things that require them (drivers licenses, passports, W-2s, state taxes, etc.). Pre-pandemic I spent literally months away from home but I had a clear permanent address.
if i am in the european union, and i work for a company outside of europe, isn't all that my own responsibility? i pay taxes, insurance, retirement funds out of my own pocket, and i just need to factor that into what i am getting paid.
the only complication is that i have to figure out myself what and how to pay.
One of my colleagues works remote from another country and you were going to charge him $600/month. That's more than $7k per year, a good 10% of the gross salary of a senior developer in Germany. For that much money our company can contract a tax accountant just for him many times over.
Can you email me with the needs? I'm sure we can work something out. I don't think the tax accountant is able to be a local liable employer, like we are.
I've been using this one [0], which lays under your mattress and is surprisingly accurate (have many night time wakings due to young kid). It tracks movement, even heart rate and snoring.
You don't have to charge it, nor wear anything, which is why I got it vs. any of the wearables.
We turn all that off because inevitably someone starts saying: I can't hear you guys, it's coming in robot voice, can you turn off the screen/video share?
>the low resolution, low contrast, washed out, low fps video that makes it hard to read emotion or even detect where his/her attention is?
This is totally disingenuous. We're not comparing a 120p camera to a 1080p camera. We're comparing a sharp camera with great color rendition to a slightly higher resolution of the same camera.
You can use a Black Magic Design Web Presenter which allows connecting 2 pro camera/lens setups via HDMI/SDI, and XLR mic inputs. It shows up as a USB webcam like normal.
Not any good one that does it in hardware out of the box that I know of. There are mod kits for CS lenses for c920/930/brio, if you can live with a tighter shot. If you've an compatible RX100/A6000 or similar laying around, then an Elgato Cam Link like hanselman's setup above might be the easiest option.
Fair question, and I think yes! If you mainly do your meetings remotely (which I do), you want your interactions to be as high-bandwidth as possible.
There is value, and data, in real world interactions that is lost quickly in video calls. The lower latency, the higher the resolution and quality of the audio, the more you approximate a 'real' meeting.
This is way beyond baseline requirements for e.g. remote work, but it's _nice_, just as a slightly bigger screen is _nice_.
This is for audio, not video, as it's my "thing", but for the past year I've been doing all my video interviews with a Shure SM57 mic plugged into a nice preamp, into a good interface, and they've all gone much better than phone interviews. No one's ever said "wait, could you repeat that?" or "You're breaking up a bit". There's something to be said for smoothing out conferencing so it makes it more lifelike, and I'd assume that's even more true for video.
Or put another way, can you find any high-profile Twitch streamers using their integrated webcam/mic?
