I am building my academic research around fully distributed teams and also building a job board for such jobs at the same time.
The common issue I see is that most companies that says work from anywhere are not truly work from anywhere, they restrict based on location/timezone. So, it's harder to spot fully worldwide remote companies.
There are dozens of problems when it comes to international hiring/ work from anywhere. So, not all companies can do that. I understand that.
I need your help to identify some best work from anywhere companies for my study. Please let me know if you know any.
Everybody insists on hiring employees while they could work with the same people if they worked through their own local company - and it could very well means the "employee" would receive 20-60% extra, due to being more tax efficient. There are some complications in regards to giving shares but they can be sorted.
There are also third party companies that hire you in a specific country and charge 500-1000$ per month to do payrolls - but I wouldn't recommend: you lose on the tax benefits for the employee, the employee is still not your employee.