I got tired of "remote" meaning "remote, US only", so I counted 2,798 companies

Short summary

The author analyzed 2,378 real employers with remote job postings and found only 9% (216 companies) have at least one role open to worldwide applicants, while 91% are region-locked—usually US-only. The hardest part wasn't scraping ATS data from Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby but interpreting messy posting data where structured fields lie and location restrictions hide deep in description text. Recognizable names like GitLab, Mozilla, and Stripe do hire worldwide, but many expected remote-friendly companies like ElevenLabs and Twilio remain region-locked.

• •Only 9% of 2,378 real employers offer any worldwide-remote role; 91% are region-locked
• •4.2% of individual listings (444 of 10,525) are truly open to non-US applicants
• •Structured ATS fields frequently misrepresent location; a deterministic rule that hybrid/onsite jobs can never be worldwide fixed a major false-positive class

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