Japan Dev · B2B · Japan developer job board
Have companies report hires within ~5 days; refund only part in month one
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What they did
Companies must report a hire within ~5 days of contract signing; invoice sent then, due on the last day of the month following the join month. If the hire has an issue within ~1 month, a partial (not full) refund; simpler than recruiters' staged refund schedules (e.g. 100% in month 1, 50% after 3 months).
In their words
Pete Codes · $60k/m from a job board“so they have to tell us, basically, within like 5 days or so, when they sign the contract”
“if they join, and like with within 1 month, there's an issue, then we do We give like a partial refund”
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