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We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

#21

Everyone and their mother is making a jobs board: StackOverflow, JSFiddle, Github, Techcrunch, now these guys...

They had one before already and sold it. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3196-sortfolio-lives Edit: sorry, yes, my brain got mixed up. I used to use Sortfolio going through lists of agencies and checking out if they have vacancies open.

That's not a job board, that's a web agency discovery engine.

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Taxes and international payments are a huge pain would be my guess.

Just hire people as contractors and it is extremely easy. They send you invoices periodically, you send them money through regular bank wire transfer.

Certainly possible but remember that "contractor" and "employee" have legal definitions. You can't "just" call an employee (by the legal definition) a contractor.

(Edit: I see ljoshua beat me to the possibility for issues here but it's important to emphasize that it can be done, just play by the rules to avoid trouble down the line.)

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

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Browsing through these jobs is enough to kill your faith in humanity. I don't think I saw any I'd want to work for regardless of salary. Cases in point: We're looking for a younger developer ... There will be no compensation for this job https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/20 You will be working with interesting people, namely me. https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/10 EDIT: I take back the initial statement, there are a lot…

And here's another fine example:

You love Macs, open source software and tools, and cringe when you hear the words .NET

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

#25

Interesting that most of the backend jobs look to be for Rails. I wonder if there's a correlation between Ruby/Rails developers and a more liberal policy to remote working...or if it's just because Rails shops are much more likely to flock to a 37signals site.

It just launched. They likely reached out to companies they've worked with to fill out the database.

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

#26

Everyone and their mother is making a jobs board: StackOverflow, JSFiddle, Github, Techcrunch, now these guys...

They had one before already and sold it. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3196-sortfolio-lives Edit: sorry, yes, my brain got mixed up. I used to use Sortfolio going through lists of agencies and checking out if they have vacancies open.

That's not their old job board, this is: https://jobs.37signals.com/

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

#27

Everyone and their mother is making a jobs board: StackOverflow, JSFiddle, Github, Techcrunch, now these guys...

https://jobs.37signals.com/ has been around for years - if I re-call it was not cheap to post jobs there.

Looks like their new one is free but you can only list remote jobs - which is kind of awesome

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

#28

Everyone and their mother is making a jobs board: StackOverflow, JSFiddle, Github, Techcrunch, now these guys...

https://jobs.37signals.com/ has been around for years - if I re-call it was not cheap to post jobs there. Looks like their new one is free but you can only list remote jobs - which is kind of awesome

It's free once.

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

#29
post #23
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just hire people as contractors and it is extremely easy. They send you invoices periodically, you send them money through regular bank wire transfer.

Certainly possible but remember that "contractor" and "employee" have legal definitions. You can't "just" call an employee (by the legal definition) a contractor. (Edit: I see ljoshua beat me to the possibility for issues here but it's important to emphasize that it can be done, just play by the rules to avoid trouble down the line.)

Sure, but nothing stops you from having long-term "contractor"-s.

Re: We Work Remotely – New Job Board from 37 Signals

#30
It'd be nice if remote working opportunities didn't come with national borders. The border-less nature of the Internet and knowledge-based work doesn't seem to require geographic location and yet due to complex logistical restrictions most of these job postings are US-only.

Kind of a weird place to be.

I wonder if there's some kind of hack that could allow small companies and startups to get around the policy issues without getting various regional governments upset with them.

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