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Read up on employers of record: https://www.adp.com/resources/articles-and-insights/articles...

(Just hiring people as contractors, as it sounds like Automattic does, is another option.)

we do this in Poland. While they're technically contractors everyone is treated like employees as much as possible. Hiring globally is really expensive, slow and risky for all but the largest companies. It's hard to be an expert in one system, let alone dozens, and that's before state/province/territory/etc differences.

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