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Re:Why aren’t more companies remote-first? by calcifer on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @09:59AM (#20104392)
That becomes the contractor's problem unless you live in the few places where Gitlab has a legal presence.
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Re:Why aren’t more companies remote-first? by rb808 on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @10:03AM (#20104439)
It looks like you can choose to be employee, https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/contracts/
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Re:Why aren’t more companies remote-first? by calcifer on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @10:42AM (#20104875)
I don't see anything in there about a choice to be an employee. Which makes sense, you can't employ people in a country without being an employer.
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Re:Why aren’t more companies remote-first? by sytse on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @11:45AM (#20105592)
Correct, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c... and specifically https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/blob/master/dat... for a list of countries in which we can hire you as an employee.
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Re:Why aren’t more companies remote-first? by literallycancer on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:05AM (#20114659)
Do you just use 0.411 for countries where you have no COL data?
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