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Disclosure up front, since the sub asks for it: I work at Borderless AI. We are one of the companies that employs people abroad on behalf of other businesses, so I have an obvious interest in this subject. The pattern I see most weeks. A SaaS company hires a contractor in Poland or Portugal or Mexico because it is the fast way to get somebody started. It works. Two years on, that person has a company laptop, a manager and a seat in standup, and is still on a contractor agreement. What forces the conversation is almost never a regulator, many people have ways of getting around this. It is diligence during a raise or an acquisition, when somebody asks how a third of engineering is classified. Or it is the person themselves, who wants a mortgage (far and away the most common one), or parental leave, or a payslip that matches what they do all day. By then you are converting against somebody else's deadline, which is the expensive version of this. Two things worth settling early, and neither of them needs us. Whether continuous service runs from the original contractor start date or from the conversion date. This varies by country and it is a question for a local advisor rather than for me. I raise it because it is much cheaper to sort out before the new contract is signed rather than after. What the original contract said about who owns the work. If that was ever vague, the conversion is the natural moment to fix it.   submitted by   /u/MisterTwisties [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/12 11:14:35