<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>nthj</author><text>A lot of software companies’ customer contracts specify that only U.S. employees can access customer data, also. Ops, customer support engineering, and many kinds of bug fixes all require that access.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vcanales</author><text>In my totally unscientific assessment of remote job boards, US companies seem to be the only ones requesting US-only applicants, and I have no insight as to why this happens.&lt;p&gt;In my -South American- country the trend is to look outwards if you&amp;#x27;re hiring remotely; European countries seem to fit this description too.</text></item><item><author>davedx</author><text>Seems like this article ignores the gigantic wave of out-sourcing throughout IT that already happened in previous decades and in many cases returned to near-shore &amp;#x2F; onsite work.&lt;p&gt;What you actually see if you look at remote work job boards is many (if not most) companies in say, the USA, want remote people from the USA (or at least the same timezone as the USA). I think this is what will happen in other countries too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remote work means anyone can take your job</title><url>https://marker.medium.com/remote-workers-just-outsourced-themselves-3f771f9d1529</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dudul</author><text>European countries are outliers due to EU regulations.  Any EU &amp;quot;citizen&amp;quot; can work anywhere in the EU, so pragmatically speaking, why would you only want to hire Spanish people instead of opening the door to French, Italian or German candidates? It comes at literally zero cost to the company.&lt;p&gt;Some industries are heavily regulated in the US and having non-US based employees can become a real headache for US companies.  A lot of US companies have background check as part of their hiring process, pretty hard to do for someone not US-based.&lt;p&gt;Also, if you target only the continental US you&amp;#x27;re already talking about companies that may be spread across 4 major timezones.  If you start including Europe you&amp;#x27;re now dealing with people that are gonna be more than 6 hours removed from your HQ&amp;#x27;s timezone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>vcanales</author><text>In my totally unscientific assessment of remote job boards, US companies seem to be the only ones requesting US-only applicants, and I have no insight as to why this happens.&lt;p&gt;In my -South American- country the trend is to look outwards if you&amp;#x27;re hiring remotely; European countries seem to fit this description too.</text></item><item><author>davedx</author><text>Seems like this article ignores the gigantic wave of out-sourcing throughout IT that already happened in previous decades and in many cases returned to near-shore &amp;#x2F; onsite work.&lt;p&gt;What you actually see if you look at remote work job boards is many (if not most) companies in say, the USA, want remote people from the USA (or at least the same timezone as the USA). I think this is what will happen in other countries too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Remote work means anyone can take your job</title><url>https://marker.medium.com/remote-workers-just-outsourced-themselves-3f771f9d1529</url></story>