About FewerJobs

FewerJobs is a curated remote-job board for working parents, parents-to-be, and anyone who cares about whether the company they apply to actually pays for parental leave.

What we do differently

• Every benefit claim links to its source. If a card says "16 weeks paid parental leave," click the ✓ to read the policy doc on the employer's own site.
• State-aware eligibility. We extract which states each role can be hired in, so you know before you click apply.
• Freshness-first. We re-check daily and remove dead listings within 48 hours. No ghost jobs.
• No paywall, no account, no ads. Browsing is free and will stay free.
• Filter-driven, never resume-driven. You control what you see; we don't ask for a resume.
• AI-friendly by design. Same data is available at /api/jobs.json for any AI agent. See /llms.txt.

Two wedges

• Family-friendly remote work: curated remote roles at companies with verified family-friendly benefits.
• Ownership upside: top-startup employers where you can target equity, profit-sharing, and ownership.

These are not separate audiences. Family-focused parents at startups often need both: credible leave and flexibility plus a way to find roles where compensation can include ownership, not only salary.

How verification works

For each employer in our verified-benefits set, we read a primary source — the employer's official benefits page, an SEC filing, or a published handbook — and record the paid-leave-week values plus the source URL plus the date we last verified it. The checked-in benefits cache currently contains 148 employer benefit records, including 65 verified rows and 72 rows with a numeric non-birth-parent leave value.

What we don't claim

• We don't claim to cover every employer. We cover ~1,000 employers, primarily large public companies plus modern tech-forward employers.
• We don't claim our verified-benefits set is comprehensive across every benefit. We focus on parental leave first; PTO, health, and 401(k) coverage expands over time.
• We don't endorse employers; the verified ✓ means we read their stated policy, not that we vouch for the workplace.

How we operate

• Logged-off only. We never authenticate to any source.
• No CAPTCHA bypass. If a site serves a challenge, we move on.
• Respect published access-policy files as a courtesy.
• No employer logos without license.
• Fact-extract + ~30-word excerpt + outlink to the source for the full text.
• Per-source kill switch in our data-collection config for escalated claims.

FAQ

Is FewerJobs free to use?

Yes. Public job search, exports, llms.txt, OpenAPI metadata, and JSON endpoints are available without an account during the current launch phase.

How are benefits verified?

Benefit claims are tied to source records when available, including employer policy pages, benefits pages, source dates, and verification notes captured by the pipeline.

Do you cover EU?

FewerJobs currently focuses on U.S.-eligible remote roles. EU coverage is tracked separately through the EU waitlist.

Can AI agents use FewerJobs?

Yes. AI agents can use llms.txt, llms-full.txt, the OpenAPI description, the jobs JSON endpoint, and the public MCP surface.

How fresh is the data?

Listings include posted dates and apply URL freshness signals. Stale listings are excluded from SEO sitemaps and can return a removed-listing response.

How do I get my listing removed?

Send legal or removal requests to [email protected]. Listing accuracy corrections can be sent to [email protected].

What ATSes do you cover?

The current pipeline covers common public ATS surfaces and employer career pages as they are normalized into the FewerJobs data layer.

Removal requests

We separate three categories with different processes:

• DMCA copyright notices. Sent to our designated DMCA agent at [email protected]. Processed under § 512 of the DMCA. We comply with valid notices.
• Listing accuracy / data corrections. If a benefit number, salary, or apply URL is wrong, email [email protected]. We fix errors quickly — we don't remove the listing, we correct it.
• Source-level or employer removal requests. Reviewed case-by-case at [email protected]. We aggregate publicly-posted listings under the legal basis established by Meta v. Bright Data and X Corp v. Bright Data (N.D. Cal. 2024) — logged-off access to public data does not breach platform Terms because we never agreed to them. We don't auto-remove on demand; if you have a stated legal claim, we'll review in good faith.

Who's behind this

Built by Jay Shkoukani as part of the broader Viola product family. Independent, bootstrapped, audience-first. Not VC-funded.