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This is just moving things around. The international employee deals with equivalent of withholding etc. It's exactly like a self-employed consultant/contractor locally, they should be factoring this into their hourly rate (including things like paying their accountants to sort out taxes, etc.).

If wage disparity is big enough, it can still be a "win".

Also it doesn't always work this way, often US companies have subsidiaries to handle payroll etc. in other countries.




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