ajauntyshark

It usually means they have payroll and processes around taxes implemented in the US only. They might be unwilling to take "contractors" who are actually full time employees from other countries since in those scenarios they still have tax obligations. For some countries in the EU, such as Germany, you're unable to "contract" someone full time since the "employee" isn't actually self-employed and it would enable them to deduct a bunch of tax items that actual full time employees wouldn't be able to. In those countries, as a real contractor you can't have all your income coming from one company. If you apply this thought process to countries that are in the same TZ as the US, you can see that HR would have to look into a lot of legalities in those countries, keep up with the legalities, and calculate the risk of those laws changing. I'm extensively using quotations because contractor/employee is fuzzy in these scenarios.

This is coming from a Canadian that dislikes the "Remote US Only" clauses when I see an awesome company hiring.

I use JIRA for personal projects and at work. It's coming to the point where JIRA is so slow that I'm willing to invest the time to migrate my personal projects over to something else. If I simply want to add a label to a ticket it can take an unreasonable amount of time. It's mind blowing when I'm paying a decent amount for seats.

Why do people say this? Aren’t all of the employees at Amazon paying income tax? I’m genuinely curious because this is brought up so much.

> Who is this really for? People who commute a reasonable distance to jobs by themselves.

Maybe it's rebelling against Cyberpunk.