Streamlined global benefits

Managing employee benefits across multiple countries is often complicated and frequently disconnected from payroll systems. Running separate platforms for benefits and payroll, together with numerous providers and country-specific rules, makes it difficult to offer the appropriate benefits for your people. In the absence of a unified solution, it becomes harder to attract and retain top talent while keeping costs and administrative work under control.

Remote customers can access benefits straight from the payroll system, simplifying cross-border administration. With everything consolidated in one place, you can roll out a comprehensive benefits package that cuts admin time, ensures compliance, manages costs and supports your global team.

For international companies, delivering strong benefits can be a significant burden. Co-ordinating multiple brokers and negotiating differing contracts consumes time and energy, and results in fragmented systems and scattered information.

Run all your global employee benefits from a single, unified platform. This streamlines the operation of benefits across countries, keeps information centralised, saves time and reduces costs, and enhances transparency to deliver a consistent, seamless experience for both your team and your employees.

Basic pay on its own no longer secures the best candidates. To stand out, employers must provide a competitive benefits package that meets the diverse needs and expectations of an international workforce.

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

Managing benefits across different countries involves complex local regulations. Each jurisdiction has its own rules and standards, and keeping up with them can quickly overwhelm your HR team. The possibility of errors, fines or legal complications only increases the pressure.

Our priority is to make sure you remain compliant with local laws wherever your team is located. We manage the detailed aspects of compliance so you can focus on offering meaningful benefits to your employees—without the associated regulatory burden.

When payroll is not linked to employee benefits, things can become disordered quickly. Differences in allocations, deductions and contributions can occur, leading to confusion, frustrated employees and extra work for your admin team. Manual fixes take time and introduce the risk of costly errors. By integrating payroll with employee benefits, everything synchronises automatically. That reduces errors, cuts down on manual adjustments and smooths the whole process. Employees receive the correct benefits at the right time, improving satisfaction, and your HR and payroll teams can focus on more strategic work instead of constant double-checking.

Relying on multiple providers and systems for global benefits can quickly become expensive. Charges from each supplier add up, placing pressure on your budget, lowering the quality of benefits available to employees and complicating the overall process.

Consolidating to a single point of contact simplifies everything. With one provider managing all your global benefits, you reduce costs, streamline administration and free up time to focus on what matters most—taking care of your employees.

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

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

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

• Easily enrol themselves and their 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 better-informed healthcare decisions

• Find all your health benefits information in one place without trawling through emails or paperwork, and monitor health history and claims

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

About Kota

Kota provides the simplest way to administer employee benefits for your team. It integrates directly with insurance and retirement providers so you can bypass traditional brokers and set up, manage and pay your benefits from one command centre. HR and Finance teams appreciate the reduced time, cost and complexity, 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 like EQT Ventures, Northzone and Frontline, having raised €7.6M to date. For more information, visit Kota.io.

Our partnership with SimplyInsured provides instant access to comprehensive, compliant benefits directly within the Remote platform. Through this integration, our US payroll clients can effortlessly offer competitively priced, personalised insurance plans from trusted US carriers while ensuring employees receive the coverage they need, all within a single system.

Managing US health benefits can be complex, with strict compliance requirements and regulations that vary by State. By using Remote’s platform, companies can integrate benefits with payroll operations to ensure compliance with US healthcare law and local labour regulations. This integration simplifies the whole process from enrolment to ongoing management.

With the combined expertise of Remote and SimplyInsured, providing compliant, localised benefits is now more straightforward and efficient, ensuring an improved 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 are transforming a $20 billion industry and have served over 100,000 customers in the past decade. Doing what is best for the customer is central to everything they do, and their customer stories demonstrate the impact: by changing health insurance they are literally saving lives. Based in San Francisco, SimplyInsured was founded in 2012 and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Polaris Ventures and Y-Combinator.