Streamlined global benefits

Managing global employee benefits is frequently fragmented and often disconnected from payroll systems. Operating separate platforms for benefits and payroll, coordinating multiple providers and meeting country-specific rules makes it challenging to deliver the right benefits for your staff. Without a single integrated solution, attracting and retaining top talent while controlling costs and lowering administrative load becomes difficult.

Remote customers can access benefits directly through the payroll system, streamlining cross-country administration. With all information centralised, you can deploy a comprehensive benefits package that cuts administrative time, maintains compliance, controls costs and supports your international workforce.

For multinational companies, providing strong employee benefits often creates complexity. Coordinating multiple brokers and negotiating differing contracts consumes time and energy, and leads to fragmented systems and scattered information.

Consolidate all global employee benefits onto a single unified platform. This simplifies administration across multiple countries, places essential data in one accessible location, saves time, lowers costs and increases transparency to deliver a consistent experience for both employers and employees.

Basic pay alone no longer attracts top talent. Organisations must offer competitive benefits that meet the diverse needs and expectations of a global workforce.

A centralised platform makes it easier to deliver tailored, competitive local benefits at scale. It helps companies attract and retain top talent by offering regionally relevant plans, streamlines regional compliance and allows employees to view, edit and manage benefits for a more personalised experience.

Managing benefits across multiple jurisdictions becomes highly complex because each country has its own regulations and standards. Staying compliant can be time-consuming for HR teams and increases the risk of errors, fines or legal issues.

We prioritise keeping you aligned with local laws wherever your team is based. We handle the detailed compliance work so you can concentrate on providing meaningful benefits without the regulatory burden.

If payroll is not linked to employee benefits, discrepancies can escalate quickly. Mismatches in allocations, deductions and contributions create confusion, frustrate employees and increase administrative effort. Manual corrections take time and introduce the risk of costly mistakes. By integrating payroll with benefits, data synchronises automatically. That means fewer errors, reduced manual adjustments and a smoother process—employees receive the correct benefits on time, improving satisfaction, while HR and payroll teams can focus on higher-value work.

Relying on multiple providers and systems for global benefits quickly increases expenses. Fees from each supplier accumulate, straining budgets, reducing benefit quality and complicating administration.

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

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

• See an instant, all-in-one view of employee benefits and enrolment, making it straightforward to grasp the full picture and onboard or offboard staff within a few clicks

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

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

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

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

The partnership between Kota and Remote delivers instant-enrolment health insurance benefits directly to Remote Payroll customers. This integration enables 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 and ensure team members across regions receive the coverage they need without navigating complex regulations.

About Kota

Kota makes it simple to run employee benefits for your team. We integrate 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 our 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 inside the Remote platform. Through this integration, our US payroll clients can offer competitively priced, personalised insurance plans from trusted US carriers, ensuring employees receive the coverage they need within a single system.

Administering US health benefits is complex due to strict state-level regulations and compliance requirements. By using Remote’s platform, companies can integrate benefits into payroll workflows, ensuring adherence to US healthcare laws and local labour regulations. This integration streamlines the entire process from enrolment to ongoing management.

Together, Remote and SimplyInsured make offering compliant, localised benefits simpler and more efficient, ensuring an excellent employee experience across every State.

About SimplyInsured

SimplyInsured’s mission is to remove the fear from buying and managing health insurance in the United States. By changing how small business owners purchase health insurance through a 100% online platform, they are transforming a US$20 billion industry and have proudly served over 100,000 customers in the past decade. The customer’s best interest is central to everything they do, and their customer stories show the real impact of better health insurance. Based in San Francisco, SimplyInsured was founded in 2012 and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Polaris Ventures and Y-Combinator.