Making global benefits simple

Managing global employee benefits is frequently complicated and often sits apart from payroll. Running separate systems for benefits and payroll, along with multiple providers and country-specific rules, makes it hard to deliver the right benefits. Without an integrated approach, attracting and keeping top talent while controlling costs and cutting administrative load is a real challenge.

Remote customers can access benefits straight from the payroll system, making cross-country management simpler. With everything centralised in one place, you can deploy a comprehensive benefits package that reduces admin time, ensures compliance, controls costs and supports your global team.

For global businesses, delivering great employee benefits can be a headache. Managing several brokers and negotiating multiple contracts eats up time and energy, leaving you with fragmented systems and scattered information.

Manage all your global employee benefits from a single, unified platform. That makes it easier and more efficient to operate benefits across multiple countries, keep all information in one convenient place, save time and reduce costs, and improve transparency for both you and your employees.

Basic pay alone no longer secures top talent. To stand out, organisations need competitive benefits that appeal to a diverse, global workforce and meet a range of needs and expectations.

A single platform makes it straightforward to deliver tailored, competitive local benefits at scale. It helps companies attract and keep top talent by offering region-specific benefits, streamlining compliance, and letting employees view, edit and manage their own benefits for a more personalised experience.

When you’re administering benefits across multiple countries, staying current with local regulations becomes very complex. Each country has its own rules and standards, and keeping compliant can quickly overwhelm HR teams. That increases the risk of mistakes, fines or legal issues.

We make compliance our priority no matter where your people are based. We manage the detailed compliance work for you, so you can focus on offering meaningful benefits to employees without the regulatory headaches.

If payroll isn’t linked to your benefits, discrepancies in allocations, deductions and contributions can arise, causing confusion, frustrated employees and more work for your admin team. Relying on manual fixes is time-consuming and increases the chance of costly errors. When payroll and benefits are integrated, data syncs automatically. That means fewer errors, less manual intervention and a smoother process overall. Employees receive the right benefits on time, improving satisfaction, while HR and payroll teams are freed to focus on more strategic work.

Relying on multiple providers and systems for global benefits can quickly become costly. Fees from each provider add up, placing pressure on your budget, reducing the quality of benefits and complicating management.

Moving to a single point of contact simplifies everything. With one provider handling global benefits, you cut costs, simplify administration and regain time to focus on what matters most—looking after your people.

• Access a personalised, integrated and user-friendly portal to manage benefits information and transactions

• Get an instant, all-in-one view of your employee benefits and enrolment, making it simple to see the big picture and onboard or offboard employees in a few clicks

• See a complete, real-time snapshot of costs, employee engagement, plan performance and more.

• Easily enrol themselves and dependants, update details and make changes during enrolment — all online with no paperwork or confusing forms

• Access health plan details, including cover options, costs and benefits to make more informed healthcare decisions

• Find all your health-benefits information in one place—no need to dig through emails or paperwork—and track health history and claims

The partnership between Kota and Remote brings comprehensive, instant-enrolment health insurance benefits directly to Remote Payroll customers. This integration allows companies to set up and scale competitively priced health plans from trusted local providers within the Remote platform. By using this solution, companies can simplify offering compliant, localised benefits so team members across different regions get the coverage they need without the hassle of navigating complex regulations.

About Kota

Kota makes running employee benefits for your team straightforward. It integrates directly with insurance and retirement providers so you can avoid traditional brokers and set up, manage and pay your benefits from a single command centre. HR and Finance teams appreciate the time, cost and complexity savings, and employees value the easy-to-use app where they can personalise and control their benefits. Proudly founded in Ireland, Kota supports hundreds of businesses and is backed by some of Europe’s leading investors such as EQT Ventures, Northzone and Frontline, having raised €7.6M to date. For more information, visit Kota.io.

Our partnership with SimplyInsured gives direct access to comprehensive, compliant benefits within the Remote platform. Through this integration, our US payroll clients can easily offer competitively priced, personalised insurance plans from trusted US carriers, while ensuring employees get the cover they need, all within a single system.

Managing US health benefits is complex, with strict state-level rules and compliance requirements. By using Remote’s platform, companies can integrate benefits into payroll operations and ensure compliance with US healthcare laws and local labour regulations. This integration streamlines the whole process, from enrolment to ongoing management.

With the combined expertise of Remote and SimplyInsured, delivering compliant, localised benefits is now simpler and more efficient, ensuring an outstanding employee experience across every State.

About SimplyInsured

SimplyInsured aims to remove the fear from buying and navigating health insurance in the United States. By changing how small business owners purchase health insurance through a fully online platform, they’re transforming a $20 billion industry and have proudly served over 100,000 customers in the past decade. Putting the customer first is central to everything they do, and their customer stories show the real impact: by changing health insurance they’re literally saving lives. Based in San Francisco, SimplyInsured was founded in 2012 and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Polaris Ventures, and Y-Combinator.