• poVoq@slrpnk.netM
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    6 days ago

    It’s a tax issue. They can’t hire remote workers without German tax residency. Some companies try to work around it, but it isn’t easy.

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      6 days ago

      Yep. Even when you’re German and you have a 100% remote job, you may not work from another country for more than x days or things become complicated for the company. We were told that very officially at my last job and at the same time we were given very long time buffers for occasions where we might be called into the office for whatever and the few colleagues affected by that got the hint and kept infos about extended visits to friends and families to themselves. Nobody looked at ips on the VPN gateway and everyone was happy.

      Obviously that does not work that way when you employ a person from an entirely different country.