Begin anywhere. Expand everywhere.
A global HR platform built for your needs
Bring employees and contractors on board, pay them, and manage them worldwide with Remote. You concentrate on finding the best hires — we’ll take care of everything else quicker than you can say eins, zwei, drei.
Global companies grow with Remote
Hire
Hire top talent with ease
Find outstanding candidates and convert them into productive team members with confidence. We guide you through every stage of hiring — from sourcing the right talent and making informed choices to preparing compelling offers and delivering smooth onboarding. Set new hires up to excel from day one, foster a sense of belonging, and help them start contributing to your objectives immediately. Our tools let you focus on assembling a team that reflects your vision and moves your business forward.
Hire the best, anywhere: Find the right candidates faster. Availability: Now
Global reach, local opportunities: Linking companies and talent across the globe.
Post a position and let AI immediately identify the best-fit candidates for your role.
Hire strategically: Use market data from 55+ countries to pinpoint the best places to recruit.
Pay
Manage global compensation
Ensure your global team receives accurate, timely pay. Handling payroll and benefits correctly goes beyond compliance — it demonstrates care and strengthens your operations. When you get this right, employee satisfaction improves and your practices stay solid.
Insights at your fingertips: Access comprehensive payroll reports customised to your requirements.
Navigate compliance with clarity: Access detailed statutory payment insights across regions.
Pay in crypto: Give contractors flexible, modern payment choices.
Pay contractors without delay: Guarantee prompt payments using pre-funded contractor invoices.
Review & reward
Enrich total rewards
Rework your compensation approach so it reaches beyond salary alone. Our platform enables you to deliver a full range of benefits and non-financial rewards that meet your workforce’s varied needs. From comprehensive health coverage to competitive equity programs, tailor a rewards package that compensates, values, and invests in your employees. That focus on well-being and future prospects builds loyalty, lifts engagement, and nurtures a motivated workplace.
Enhance contractor engagement: Offer customised benefits to attract and support top freelance talent.
Drive success with targeted incentives: Design rewards that inspire and sustain team motivation.
Enhance team growth: Track and improve employee performance easily.
Manage
Centralise your workforce operations
Manage your team efficiently using tools that simplify key workforce tasks. Whether it’s keeping accurate employee records, tracking attendance, or meeting local compliance requirements, we provide the essentials to keep operations steady. Concentrate on your people while we handle the foundational duties that support your expanding organisation.
Control your costs: Streamlined expense management for clear spending visibility.
Scale
Scale with confidence
Get your business ready for growth at every stage. We simplify expansion from initial setup to intellectual property management, assisting with new entity formation and asset protection. Our toolkit—including contractor management and ongoing compliance—meets both current needs and future demands, so your organisation grows not only larger but also more resilient. Choose scalable solutions that support your evolving business and promote sustainable success.
Automate with confidence: Simplify HR processes and streamline them across your organisation.
Optimise team operations: Manage and deploy your global workforce with accuracy.
Unlock data-driven insights: Use comprehensive reports and real-time analytics to make informed decisions.
Expand your footprint: Make establishing entities in new markets straightforward.
Hire contractors
Use Remote to onboard, manage, and pay contractors worldwide with a single click. Completely free, with zero hidden fees.
Invite individual contractors to join Remote and complete onboarding.
Use our local, compliant contract templates or bring your own.
Your independent contractor submits their invoice via Remote.
Remote generates a single payment request covering all your contractors.
Remote settles payments to your international contractors in their local currency.
Provide best-in-class local benefits for your remote team
67% of global workers expect benefits comparable to those of other professionals in their country or city, and 60% have chosen one job over another due to better benefits. With Remote, you will not lose out on great talent because of lacklustre benefits.
- Health insurance <br> Provide local healthcare to your global team members without the administrative burden. Remote’s comprehensive and flexible plans will ensure your employees have the coverage they need while helping you attract the best talent — from enrolment to administration, we handle it for you.
- Pension & 401(k) plans<br>Nearly two-thirds of global workers consider retirement plans an essential benefit. With Remote, you can provide competitive, localised plans in many leading markets.
- PTO and sick leave<br>Handle PTO and sick leave for your global team in Remote with ease. From local holidays to jurisdictional laws, we have you covered.
Broaden your reach with relocation assistance
Pilot new markets and support employees relocating internationally with relocation assistance backed by Remote’s mobility experts.
Sponsorship in top expat locations
Immigration and tax guidance
Relocation and settling-in assistance
Insurance
Travel letter requests
Quick course on global HR
How does global HR differ? What are the specific challenges of international employment? Get a concise crash course on the core concepts of global HR.
Global HR covers HR activities involved in hiring and overseeing workers across multiple countries, such as recruitment, onboarding, compensation and benefits, payroll, and compliance. Global HR presents unique challenges (and substantial opportunities) to People teams that aim to scale internationally.
Global HR requires People teams to manage and pay staff while reducing HR-related risks tied to local labour and tax law. Choosing the right platform is essential to overcome these global HR challenges.
Companies can employ staff internationally through an employer of record (EOR) rather than establishing a local legal entity. An employer of record assumes legal responsibility for employment and manages taxes, benefits, payroll, and compliance on the company’s behalf. Alternatively, companies can use a global HR provider to hire contractors across the globe or for one-off projects — for example, recruitment within a particular country or processing global payroll.
Top global HR platforms deliver more than payroll and workforce management. Remote’s Global Payroll enables you to pay employees in countries where you maintain a local entity. This allows you to manage and pay your full workforce from one central HR hub, with clear visibility of employment data in a single place.
Managing HR globally presents multiple challenges, yet the right platform and support make them surmountable. Below are the main obstacles that distributed teams must address:
Regulatory compliance: Shifting labour and tax laws across countries make it difficult for companies to stay compliant with local legislation. A global HR platform such as Remote removes this burden, enabling your team to hire internationally with speed and confidence.
Developing localized offers: To find and retain top international talent, organisations must offer compensation and benefits packages that are competitive in the local market. That requires an understanding of salary benchmarks, local candidate expectations, and compliance with country-specific rules. Rather than researching benefits requirements and vendors in every market, you can rely on Remote’s curated plans for each country where you hire.
Managing global payroll: Companies must make accurate payroll calculations, determine tax and social security deductions, and handle tax reporting and compliance, which makes payroll complex. Remote Global Payroll is built to remove administrative burden, address compliance complexity, and reduce payroll errors. Remote removes uncertainty, allowing you to generate, review, and approve payroll for all your legal entities in minutes each month.
Data protection and security: Global hiring exposes companies to risks around data protection and intellectual property. Remote’s global HR platform safeguards customer IP and employment data during every stage of the employment process. Remote IP Guard offers industry-leading protection for your intellectual property and invention rights.
Global HRM entails overseeing a distributed workforce across countries and cultures. It goes beyond traditional HR by accounting for international variations in staffing, global training, compensation and benefits, performance management, legal considerations, and HR policies and procedures.
Managing human resources at a global scale is considerably more complex and requires an in-depth understanding of local business practices, regulatory frameworks, and employment law.
Remote’s global HR platform is the ideal HRM partner for managing distributed teams. You get one centralised hub to manage and pay your entire workforce. Remote’s purpose-built global HR platform gives you the guidance necessary to manage compliance at every stage of the employment process.
Human resource management is especially important for globally distributed teams. Organisations hiring internationally face distinct challenges in managing compliance, minimising risk, and delivering an equitable experience for all team members regardless of their home address.
Reduce costs by streamlining HR processes
Ensure compliance with local employment regulations
Hire and retain global talent
Build a diverse and inclusive team
Oversee worker performance across borders
Establishing a local legal entity to hire, pay, and manage workers in a new country places heavy demands on your team’s time and resources. Remote’s global HR service provides personalised guidance from our HR and legal specialists throughout your hiring journey.
Key functions of global HRM include:
Hiring, onboarding, and managing an international workforce
Designing competitive and compliant compensation and benefits packages
Managing tax deductions and payroll processes
Ensuring compliance with local regulations
Each country’s laws present unique challenges related to benefits, taxes, payroll, and compliance. A trusted HR partner like Remote can make global HR straightforward by helping you hire global workers with speed, compliance, and security.
A global HR manager oversees and coordinates all global HR functions at scale, including recruitment, onboarding, compensation and benefits, performance management, payroll, and compliance.
They collaborate with local teams in various countries to develop HR policies and procedures that comply with local rules and regulations. Some specific tasks of a global HR manager include:
Talent acquisition and management: A global HR manager implements recruitment processes to attract the best talent worldwide, develops efficient onboarding, and maintains ongoing strategies to foster effective employee communication and engagement.
Benefits and compensation: Offering a robust, localised benefits package is essential to building a world-class team. To attract and retain top candidates, a global HR manager must design an attractive and compliant compensation and benefits offering that meets local labour requirements.
Compliance with global HR policies and labour laws: Each country has distinct policies and procedures related to employment, taxes, benefits, payroll, and cultural practices. While hiring and paying workers globally, a global HR manager must consider local regulations and international employment standards to minimise HR-related risks. Protecting data privacy and security is also critical to safeguard the business from legal and financial exposure.
A purpose-built global HR platform such as Remote provides HR managers with the full set of tools and support required to hire, onboard, pay, and manage a global team quickly, safely, and in compliance. From talent acquisition and worker management to compensation, benefits, and compliance, Remote can support your team at every step of global expansion.
Remote can help you employ people across dozens of countries worldwide. View our Country Explorer for guidance on how to hire in a country of your choice.