When leading enterprise automation platform Workato wanted to expand its team, its leaders needed a rock-solid guarantee they would be compliant when hiring in new countries. See how Remote’s fully owned global infrastructure gave Workato’s leaders the confidence they needed to hire abroad.

Workato’s platform enables business and IT teams to integrate their apps and automate workflows without compromising security and governance. Founded in 2013, the company now has over 900 employees around the world.

Workato uses Remote to access global talent outside of the core markets where the company already has its own entities. With the help of Remote's user-friendly platform and hands-on customer service, Workato enjoys stress-free hiring — without the time investment and cost associated with opening a new entity — allowing the company to onboard qualified international candidates quickly and easily.

How Workato accelerates international onboarding with Remote

Workato currently has 10 employees hired via Remote in Israel. Because Remote makes it so easy for Workato to hire without opening new entities, the company is already looking to expand its talent acquisition efforts into other parts of Europe.

Yearit Schneider, head of people operations EMEA at Workato, says Remote’s global presence is key to Workato’s talent-first, location-second hiring strategy.

Workato trusts Remote for stress-free compliant hiring in new countries

In 2021, Seatti set out to solve a problem all hybrid workers face when they show up in person to HQ: where will they sit when they get there? Seatti’s software manages office space for employers so their employees always have access to a dedicated working area and can see when relevant team members are present. Their platform was a hit — which meant this remote-first company needed to expand its international team.

Compliance, country-specific expertise, and prompt support are critical for companies growing their global footprint. Read below to discover what made Seatti choose Remote for this pivotal time in their international expansion. 

Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting (office management, collaboration, meetups, flexdesk, workspace)

Total employee countries: 5, with 16 nationalities represented

While working for Tesla in Amsterdam, Seatti co-founder Chris Bieri often found himself making the hour-long commute to headquarters only to find a lack of desk space (and the colleagues he needed). In short, it was a huge waste of his time. 

“Sometimes you arrive all sweaty from your bike-commute and you realize none of your colleagues are there, and you're like ‘Oh, I could have worked from home today.’” But then other days, the office would be so full that you couldn't even find a desk anymore. In the worst cases, people would cram up next to each other and share one small desk with each other.”

That’s when the idea materialized: create a solution where you can not only see the availability of offices and space, but also where your colleagues are planning to work from so you can create meaningful connections.

Seatti’s platform immediately resonated with companies in the new world of work, solving three critical issues:

Efficiently managing office real estate so employees always feel they have a space and employers aren’t wasting money.

Fostering culture and collaboration with their employee meetup dashboard.

For companies, analyzing and integrating booking data in a fully GDPR compliant manner to improve their office spaces, hybrid work policies, and regulatory compliance.

Seatti’s intense attention to compliance was also top of mind when they began looking to expand their workforce. To source international talent, they wanted a partner who knew the ins-and-outs of compliance in whatever countries their prospective hires lived. And with the need to triple their workforce quickly, that partner couldn’t come fast enough.

Harnessing owned entities, not third-party partnerships

How would Seatti address its two biggest concerns — cost and compliance — when partnering with an EOR to expand their global workforce? After Chris did the research, he found Remote offered the best of both.

Seatti leverages Remote to ‘make hybrid work, work’

Since 2020, Seaplane has been a breath of fresh air for app developers. With its combination of public clouds, bare metal providers, and edge resources, Seaplane delivers a planet-wide software platform for businesses to run entire application stacks globally, wherever and whenever users need. And it’s not just Seaplane’s services that span the globe — the company itself is 100% remote.

Every global team needs dependable, transparent, and employee-friendly global HR. See why Seaplane trusted Remote to help scale its international workforce.

Headquarters: Mountain View, California, United States

Seaplane’s founders hail from Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, and the American Midwest (and their employees live everywhere in between). According to CEO and co-founder Niall Dalton, Seaplane’s distributed team strengthens its business.

“We know just by looking around the room that a deeper and more diverse well of personal experiences and professional insights would make for a better product and a stronger organization overall. Our technology is global, so it’s only natural that our team should reflect that.”

Even after Seaplane built a strong remote culture with a team spanning multiple time zones, the company still experienced resource-draining logistical headaches when onboarding workers in different countries. With their Series A financing right around the corner, the company’s leaders knew that rapidly hiring international workers would soon become a critical need. Seaplane needed to streamline its global hiring — immediately.

Future-proofing HR for Seaplane’s global team

How did Seaplane ensure it could quickly hire internationally while navigating compliance with confidence, bolstering its unique company culture, and managing payroll in multiple countries? The solution, according to Niall, came via Remote’s international employer of record solution.

How Seaplane went from compliance challenges to stress-free global growth

When you’re a German-based intelligent process automation company, you need access to great talent — and a lot of it. How did Automation Hero use Remote to fill open roles more quickly, convert international contractors into full-time employees, and solve compliance challenges? Read on to find out.

Headquarters: Germany (European) and United States (Global)

Company Size: 100 employees, 20 contractors

Automation Hero chose Remote to accelerate global hiring plans, unlock new talent markets, and convert longtime contractors into full-time employees with benefits.

Automation Hero is now experiencing more freedom and flexibility in its hiring process. 

The company has been able to convert several longtime contractors into full-time employees, including best-in-class local benefits and time off.

Employee referrals have increased due to Remote’s easy onboarding process. 

Remote’s account services have provided high responsiveness, helpful resources, and constantly evolving tools that have streamlined Automation Hero’s HR processes. 

Automation Hero’s HR team never has to worry if the company is compliant in specific countries, and Remote’s seamless international payroll services ensure everyone is paid in full and on time.

Employees truly feel like they belong, thanks to Remote’s global and dedicated team.

Saving thousands of hours of productivity

Automation Hero began as a German-based company. However, only being able to hire within Germany stunted their recruitment efforts and limited the company’s talent pool. To alleviate the situation, the company decided to expand to the UK first.

According to Jessica Hernandez, head of HR at Automation Hero, the first mistake was trying to go it alone.

How Automation Hero hires across Europe with Remote

See how payments automation company Primer leverages Remote’s global footprint to hire quickly in countries around the world. 

Primer is the world’s first no-code automation platform for payments and commerce. Since its founding in 2020, the company has seen remarkable growth. Today, Primer has over 150 employees (or Primigos in Primer parlance) in 30 countries building sophisticated, end-to-end payment flows and universal checkout. But just as impressive is the fact that Primer has been 100% remote since day one.

Primer’s team is driven by the belief that talent is distributed all over the world, but work opportunities are not. At Primer, remote work enhances the employee experience, as Erin Potter, Primer’s head of people and operations, explains.

Elena Constantinescu

Articles published on Remote by Elena Constantinescu