When your remote job becomes a freelance contract

Hello from Remote Work Europe, Here is a situation we watch play out again and again. Someone has a remote job, or lands one, and then decides to move abroad. They assume the role travels with them. Often it can't – at least not in the same shape. Their employer has no legal entity in the new country and no appetite to set one up, so the offer becomes: "we'd love to keep working with you – can you invoice us instead?" And with that, an employee becomes a freelancer, whether it was the plan or...