Every pale dot is a working person. The gold is where the good jobs actually are. That gap is not a market failing to clear — it is a set of defaults, written by people, that can be written differently.
Modern hiring sorts people by geography, passport and employment status long before anyone reads a CV. These are not edge cases. They are the settings the machine shipped with — and they run every day, at scale, without anyone deciding to be unfair.
Roles advertised across Europe, the Middle East and Africa disproportionately go to European candidates. Applicants in the Middle East and Africa spend three to four times longer searching for jobs they were told they qualified for.
Eligibility for perks, pay and protection is routinely determined by where you happen to live rather than the work you actually do — especially when your employer is headquartered somewhere else.
If a company can pay to bury criticism or nudge staff toward positive reviews, the whole system is rigged. Candidates choose between “this place is perfect” and “get me out now”, and neither is true.
Employment law is never taught in schools, so most people sign contracts they don't fully understand — and rarely challenge them, for fear of losing the offer. That gap is worth a great deal of money to someone. Just not to you.
Finding the job is the first step and the least of it. These six are live today — searching, applying, tracking, negotiating and growing.
Only genuinely global employers. Salary shown as standard, filterable by employer values — pay transparency, paid assessments, candidate feedback.
An assistant that knows your profile and preferences, recommends roles, and answers career questions in plain conversation.
Recurring searches that run while you sleep, automatic tracking of strong matches, and summaries sent to your inbox or phone.
Capture roles from anywhere on the web, analyse how well you match, and benchmark yourself against successful applicants.
Build, tailor and download resumes designed around the roles you are actually applying for.
Track the relationships that move careers, publish updates to surface your work to employers, and reach real salary and skills data.
We Are Distributed is also an independent, global emplomynet advisory for companies hiring across borders.
We compare employer-of-record, global payroll and HR-compliance providers across seventeen use cases, on independent research with validated claims, published monthly.
Our job is to help companies build better workplaces for the many, not the few. And it starts with how they hire.
A company hiring its first engineer in Lagos and another moving 40 contractors onto payroll in Portugal are not solving the same problem. Therefore, the same provider is not necessarily the right choice for both use cases.
With this in mind, our research is published rather than gated, and we built an AI-powered chatbot to answer provider questions with no salesperson in the room.
Both halves exist for the same reason. Every default named further up this page; the location tag that doesn't mean what it says, the benefits decided by passport, the salary withheld until the third interview — is set by an employer.
You cannot change a default from one side of the table. Being in the room where those decisions get made is the job.
A job board alone fixes none of this. These are commitments we have made in public, and the manifesto grades us against them whether or not the news is good.
A public, anonymous assessment of psychological safety and wellbeing at work — one employers cannot pay to edit. Culture surveys, visible to the people deciding whether to join.
Your happiness at work is tied to who you report to, and it is the one thing you don't get to choose. A directory of managers graded by verified direct reports, so you can apply to a person rather than a logo.
Plain-English guidance on your rights wherever you live — visa support, offer negotiation, PTO, separation agreements — so you can negotiate from a position of strength.
Independent workers are owed enormous sums by unresponsive clients. A service to help freelancers and contractors reclaim what they have already earned.
If your livelihood is at risk right now, a global search is the slowest route back to work. Take the local role. Take the less competitive one. Change industry if that is what gets you paid this month. We would rather say that plainly than take your attention on a promise that does not fit your situation.
Joining is free, which means we have no reason to pretend otherwise — and every reason to be the thing you come back to when the emergency has passed.
“I rarely challenged clauses in my employment contracts — because I was afraid the offer would be pulled.”
I've worked in tech for over a decade. That fear is the product of a knowledge gap, and the gap is not an accident: somebody profits from it every time a contract is signed unread. We're building the things I wish I'd had — and publishing what we haven't built yet, so the list is harder to quietly shorten.
Joining is free. You get the global job board, the career tools, and a say in what we build next — no matter where in the world you happen to be.
