Simplifying benefits across borders

Managing global employee benefits is complex and often disconnected from payroll. Relying on separate benefits and payroll platforms, multiple providers, and country-specific rules makes it difficult to provide the right benefits. Without a unified solution, attracting and retaining top talent becomes harder while costs and administrative burden increase.

Remote customers can access benefits straight from the payroll system, simplifying cross-country administration. With everything consolidated, you can deploy a full benefits package that reduces administrative time, ensures compliance, controls costs, and supports your global workforce.

For multinational companies, providing strong employee benefits can be a significant burden. Coordinating several brokers and negotiating different contracts consumes time and energy, and often produces disconnected systems and scattered information.

Centralise all your global employee benefits on a single, unified platform. This improves efficiency when operating across countries, keeps essential data in one place, saves time, reduces costs, and increases transparency for both you and your employees.

Simple salary packages no longer suffice to attract the best candidates. To stand out, organisations must provide competitive benefits that appeal to a diverse global workforce and meet their varied needs and expectations.

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

Managing benefits across multiple countries involves complicated local regulations. Each jurisdiction has its own rules and standards, and keeping up can be time-consuming and overwhelming for HR. The risk of mistakes, fines, or legal issues only adds to the pressure.

Our top concern is keeping you compliant with local laws no matter where your team is based. We manage the detailed compliance work so you can concentrate on offering meaningful benefits to employees—without the regulatory headaches.

When payroll and employee benefits operate separately, problems can escalate quickly. Discrepancies in allocations, deductions, and contributions create confusion, frustrate employees, and generate extra work for administrators. Manual fixes take time and increase the risk of costly errors. Linking payroll with employee benefits synchronises everything automatically. This reduces errors, cuts manual adjustments, and smooths the overall process. Employees receive the correct benefits on time, improving satisfaction, while HR and payroll teams can focus on strategic priorities instead of constant double-checking.

Relying on multiple providers and systems for global benefits quickly becomes costly. Fees from each provider accumulate, straining budgets, lowering benefit quality, and complicating overall management.

Consolidating to a single point of contact simplifies operations. When one provider manages all your global benefits, you lower expenses, streamline administration, and reclaim time to focus on what matters most—supporting your employees.

• Use a personalised, integrated, and intuitive portal to manage benefits details and transactions

• See an instant, consolidated view of employee benefits and enrolment, so you can grasp the full picture and onboard or offboard employees in just a few clicks

• Receive a comprehensive, real-time overview of costs, employee engagement, plan performance, and more.

• Employees can easily enrol themselves and their dependents, update information, and make changes during enrolment—entirely online with no paperwork or confusing forms

• View health plan details—coverage options, costs, and benefits—to help make better-informed healthcare decisions

• Locate all health benefits information in one place without searching emails or paperwork, and monitor health history and claims

The collaboration between Kota and Remote delivers 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 regions receive the coverage they need without navigating complex regulations.

About Kota

Kota provides the simplest way to manage employee benefits for your team. The platform integrates directly with insurers and retirement providers so you can skip traditional brokers and set up, manage, and pay for benefits from a single command centre. HR and Finance teams appreciate the time, cost, and complexity savings, while employees value our easy-to-use app that lets them 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 collaboration with SimplyInsured gives immediate access to compliant, comprehensive benefits inside the Remote platform. This integration enables our US payroll clients to easily provide competitively priced, personalised insurance plans from reputable US carriers while ensuring employees obtain the coverage they require, all managed within one system.

Managing US health benefits can be complicated, as each State enforces its own regulations and compliance requirements. By using Remote’s platform, companies can integrate benefits into payroll processes seamlessly, maintaining compliance with US healthcare laws and local labour regulations. This integration streamlines everything from enrolment to ongoing administration.

Bringing together Remote’s and SimplyInsured’s expertise makes offering compliant, localised benefits easier and more efficient, delivering an excellent employee experience across every State.

About SimplyInsured

SimplyInsured aims to remove the anxiety from buying and managing health insurance in the United States. By reworking how small business owners purchase health insurance through a fully online platform, the company is reshaping a $20 billion industry and has served more than 100,000 customers over the past decade. Putting the customer first guides everything we do, and customer stories show our impact—by changing health insurance we are literally saving lives. Headquartered in San Francisco, SimplyInsured was founded in 2012 and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Polaris Ventures, and Y-Combinator.