Does worldwide mean there are no legal or payroll constraints?
No. Worldwide is inferred from public posting language. Employers can still have payroll, compliance, or local restrictions.
Search intent
This page targets people who are filtering out remote jobs that are actually US-only, Canada-only, or region-only.
These are the closest thing to true borderless remote roles in the dataset. The filter looks for postings that read as worldwide, global, or work-from-anywhere rather than just using the word remote. It still keeps work authorization and contractor signals visible because a worldwide title does not remove every practical hiring constraint.