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Re:The Winners of Remote Work by ghaff on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @01:24PM (#28370885)
I have no personal experience but I have been told that even if you farm a lot of things out there is a certain amount of paperwork (and cost) that you have to handle in-house.
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Re:The Winners of Remote Work by ThePadawan on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @02:26PM (#28371664)
Hm, that's a shame. That seems to me to be just accidental, not essential complexity, too.
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Re:The Winners of Remote Work by ghaff on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @02:37PM (#28371814)
Well, a lot of it is a patchwork of government rules and regulations. Here's a long post about it from Mitchell at HashiCorp:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17022563

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Re:The Winners of Remote Work by ThePadawan on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @03:57AM (#28377370)
Right, that's exactly what I find baffling.

Right now, if N companies want to hire in M countries, the total expenditure in HR departments is in the order of O(N*M), when it could (theoretically, ideally) be O(N + M).

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