Barry Gouch, EVP at isolved, and Pim Altena, GM of Remote Embedded, sat down with host William Tincup to talk about how their partnership came together and what it opens up for isolved's customers. They covered the signals that led isolved to add global hiring — rising customer demand, analyst research on the future of work, and competitive intelligence all pointing to the same gap — why isolved chose to partner rather than build it themselves, and how the partnership will bring Remote's Employer of Record into isolved People Cloud — embedded under the isolved brand — with contractor management and global payroll available through referral. They also got into the bigger shift underneath it all: hiring for skill instead of geography, so a small or mid-market business can compete for talent anywhere in the world and stay compliant while doing it. It's worth a read on two levels: for HR and talent leaders at growing companies who want to hire the best people without setting up in every country, and for product and partnership leaders at HR tech and HCM platforms weighing whether to build global employment capabilities themselves or embed them — and what that decision looked like from isolved's side of the table.

"HR practitioners can really focus in on skill to build their teams, and have no boundaries from a geographical standpoint. SMBs and mid-market can compete with enterprise-level businesses if they have those two components — skill and recruiting." — Barry Gouch, EVP, isolved

"Once a customer is ready to make their first international hire, that's when we come in. They can buy these solutions from isolved, under the isolved brand, and it's the same product experience within isolved. That's a very powerful proposition." — Pim Altena, GM of Remote Embedded, Remote