It does, if the company has any branch/office/agent or similar in the EU, or if it targets their services/website to EU residents.
What "targets" means exactly in this case I'm not sure, but given that YC actively markets to EU based companies too, I would think that GDPR applies to them as well.
> The GDPR applies to companies outside the EU because it is extra-territorial in scope. Specifically, the law is designed not so much to regulate businesses as it is to protect the data subjects’ rights. A “data subject” is any person in the EU, including citizens, residents, and even, perhaps, visitors.
> What this means in practice is that if you collect any personal data of people in the EU, you are required to comply with the GDPR. The data could be in the form of email addresses in a marketing list or the IP addresses of those who visit your website. (See our article explaining what is considered personal data under the GDPR.)
> You may be wondering how the European Union will enforce a law in territory it does not control. The fact is, foreign governments help other countries enforce their laws through mutual assistance treaties and other mechanisms all the time. GDPR Article 50 addresses this question directly. So far, the EU’s reach has not been tested, but no doubt data protection authorities are exploring their options on a case-by-case basis.
From employee perspective I have been mostly happy with these services.
There has been some minor issues and extra hazzle, but nothing major, and the 2-3x salary compared to local levels certainly helps offset any small issues
Employer wanting to terminate an employee or employer going bankrupt, while maybe not common certainly happens, and it is built-in to their business model. Most of these services do require deposit that covers at least 1-2 months of salary + costs (up to even 6 months of salary), which is meant for these type of cases.
That being said, I do think many of these services are at least partly skirting the laws, or at least threading on a very thin line. As far as I know, most especially EU jurisdictions don't really have exact laws for EOR specifically. In general labor laws do apply though, of which these services sometimes have quite interesting/creative interpretations. But as long as things go well and everyone is happy, I don't think anyone really cares.
Thank you, It is interesting to understand the employee perspective better. Having the chances to earn 2-3x the local salary is a huge lever to look past other issues, I didn't see that so clearly in the past.
Interesting comment. How about people just like different things?
I have heard that Iceland has plenty of stuff to do and various festivals year around. Just because it's not 30+ celsius and sunny everyday doesn't mean that "there is nothing there"
Yeah most companies simply don't care, and/or they don't have the processes the address issues like that
They also likely get dozens of similarly looking messages each day from "developing country" "pentesters" for irrelevant issues, so your message could have also ended up with similar looking "spam"
If you mean the chat.openai.com ones, those just look like SEO experiments. They all follow similar format, and match what's shown on the carousel on the left-hand side of the page
For Coda this makes sense to kind of kickstart/boost their AI efforts.
But not immediately clear to me why Grammarly is interested in building their own doc builder tool?