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I’ve been diving into remote jobs in our database and thought this would be the right place to share some findings. It’s one of the things our users send the most feedback to us about – mostly getting burned when listings say remote but really mean “remote, but near me” tl;dr: Out of 52,139 remote jobs, only 5,385 explicitly said you could work from anywhere. — Here is what the listings actually said about applicant location: – 19,765 explicitly restricted applicants to one or more countries or regions – 5,385 explicitly appeared open to applicants from anywhere – 26,989 did not state a clear eligibility rule. Among the remote jobs that gave an explicit answer, 78.6% were geographically restricted. The US appeared in 11,818 of the restricted listings. Canada appeared in 1,637, Ukraine in 1,220, India in 962, and the UK in 952. A listing can name more than one eligible country, so those country counts overlap. The important distinction is not “remote versus office.” It is:
Most of the time these will all be collapsed into the same checkbox, wasting your time. Keep this in mind before you apply to jobs you cannot legally take, but also keep an eye out for roles you may think are bund to cities but are actually just listing the location PLUS let you work from anywhere. My practical recommendation: whenever you see “remote,” search the description for “must be based,” “authorized to work,” “eligible countries,” “time zone,” and “within commuting distance.” If none of those produce an answer, treat the location as unknown—not global. Methodology: I used active listings classified as remote, then separated explicit country restrictions, explicit anywhere eligibility, and unspecified eligibility. I did not assume that silence meant worldwide eligibility. I help maintain a 500K tech job corpus as part of a job-search product, so I have access to data at interestig scale if anyone wants me to research other elements. submitted by /u/Cojj25 |
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