How Covesight works
The truth about "remote," checked every day.
Figures from the live check of .
"Remote" can mean many things: work from home in one city, work from anywhere in one country, or work from anywhere until you read the fine print about time zones, language or residency. Most job boards repeat whatever the listing says. We check it.
Every day, Covesight reads more than 81,000 job postings from 2680 hiring systems: the Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday and SmartRecruiters boards that companies post to, plus careers pages and direct feeds. A job can be open today and restricted tomorrow, or close quietly and stay listed everywhere else. So we check every listing again every day, for as long as it exists.
The scan reads the fine print people skim past: phrases like "US only" or "Anywhere in France" (which usually means France, not anywhere), timezone rules like "must overlap 4 hours CET", language requirements in the middle of a paragraph, whether a salary is stated, and when the listing was last confirmed live. Each one becomes a labeled fact on the job.
The Cove Score sums up those facts. Every job page shows the breakdown: country or region, timezone, language, salary and freshness. When you add your country, timezone, languages and roles to your profile, the score becomes personal and shows how well each job fits you.
When a "remote" job turns out to hire only in one country, it stays on the board with that lock labeled, so you can judge it yourself. We remove a job only when the daily check finds it gone from the source, expired or unreachable. That keeps ghost jobs out of your results.
Three states, never guessed
Every listing that says "remote" ends the daily check in one of three states. Locked: the listing limits who can take the job to a country, a region, a timezone or a language. In the latest scan that was 35,908 of 39,007 listings, or 92.1%. Confirmed open worldwide: the listing says so explicitly (444). No lock found: nothing limits who can take the job, but nothing confirms worldwide hiring either (2,655). Together they cover every listing we show, and every job is labeled with its state.
If we counted those 2,655 no-lock-found listings as locked, the lock rate would be 98.9%. We don't, because we found no lock in them. 92.1% counts only the 35,908 listings where we read the line that locks them.
Our study of remote jobs open worldwide splits these figures by country, role and language.
Employers do not pay us, for listings or for placement. Only job seekers pay, so a listing that fails the daily check is removed the same day, whoever posted it.
If we get something wrong, like a lock we missed or a job that has closed, tell us. Every job page has a link for that, and a person reads every report.
The same scan, pointed at your search
Everything above runs every day whether or not you sign up. On the board, locked jobs stay visible with the lock labeled, so you can judge them yourself. Your letter leaves out the ones you cannot take.
Tell Covesight your country, timezone, languages and the roles you want. It takes about two minutes, and then you pick how many matches you get each day.
Every check on this page is shown on every job, on every plan. A paid plan gets you more of your matches.
Cite this page
Covesight, "How Covesight Checks Remote Job Eligibility". Data from the live check of 14 October 2026. https://covesight.com/methodology/