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Is this remote job actually open to you?

Paste a remote posting and see the country, timezone and work-authorisation requirements hiding in it. Every finding is quoted from the posting, so you can check us.

Short answer: in our study of 993 remote listings, 92% named a country, region, city or time zone, and only 6% set no location rule we could find.

Nothing is stored: not the link, not the posting, not your email.

Remote jobs you can apply to from where you live

Search remote jobs open to people in your country.

Listings limited to other countries are left out. Listings that name no place stay in, so read those before you apply. Free, no account.

Remote jobs almost always have a country attached (33 seconds)Most remote listings name a country, a region or a time zone, and the rule is easy to miss. What we found reading 993 remote listings, and where the restriction hides.What it says: Remote almost never means anywhere. Nine in ten name a country, a region or a time zone. The most common rule by far: United States only. Job Badger searches the worldwide remote boards for you, in one go. And you can paste any posting to see the country, time zone and work permit it asks for.

Why so many remote jobs are not

In September 2026 we read 993 remote listings from four job boards. 38% were open to the United States only, and only 6% set no location rule we could find.The rule is rarely hidden. It sits in the location field most people skim, or in one sentence of the description, while the headline says “Remote” in bold. The full numbers, by country, board and role, are in our remote jobs report.

The reason is mundane rather than sinister. Employing someone in another country usually means a legal entity there, or an employer-of-record, plus payroll and tax. Most companies will not do that for one hire. So “remote” nearly always means remote within somewhere, and the somewhere is the part that decides whether your application was ever going to be read.

The fuller version, including what the different phrasings actually mean, is in why that remote job might not be open to you.

Find ones you can actually take

Job Badger searches 30+ countries and filters out remote roles restricted to somewhere you are not, so the list you see is a list you can apply to. Free, and no account needed to search. Search remote jobs →

Common questions

How many remote jobs actually have restrictions?
In our remote jobs report (September 2026), 92% of 993 remote listings named a country, region, city or time zone in the location field, and 38% were open to the United States only. Only 6% set no location rule we could find. Some listings state the rule only in the description, which is the part this checker reads.
Does "remote" not mean I can work from anywhere?
Rarely. Most employers mean remote within a country or region, because hiring someone abroad means a legal entity, payroll and tax in that country. "Remote (US)" and "remote, EMEA" are far more common than genuine work-from-anywhere.
It found nothing. Does that mean I can apply?
It means we found nothing in the text you gave us, which is not the same thing. Some employers put the requirement in the application form instead, or raise it on the first call. Treat a clean result as one fewer reason to worry rather than a guarantee.
Why did it fail to read my link?
Some job boards, LinkedIn in particular, block automated readers at the door. When that happens, paste the posting text into the box instead and the check runs identically.
What happens to the posting I paste?
Nothing is stored. Not the link, not the text, not an email, and no account is needed. We keep an anonymous count of how many checks ran and whether a restriction was found, which is not linked to you.

Built by Nenad Franjic. The guidance here is tested against real applications and their outcomes — including the rejections — rather than written from a content brief.