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eriksank on Feb 2, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why We Still Believe in Working Remotely

Remote workers tend to be freelancers/self-employed. There may be no compensation package at all ;-)

nilkn on Feb 3, 2013 [–]

Well, I was specifically referring to the situation in the link, where StackExchange hires remote workers to be full-time developers. Unless I've somehow misunderstood and those appointments are not full-time but rather contract-based.

I understand that if you're freelancing things are very different.

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