Global benefits made simple

Managing employee benefits across multiple countries often becomes fragmented and difficult to administer, especially when benefits and payroll live on separate systems. Operating different platforms, working with several providers, and complying with country-specific rules makes it challenging to deliver suitable benefits. Without an integrated approach, attracting and retaining top talent while keeping costs under control and reducing administrative workload becomes much harder.

Remote customers get direct access to benefits inside the payroll system, which streamlines management across jurisdictions. When everything is consolidated, you can deploy a cohesive benefits programme that lowers admin time, maintains compliance, controls expenditure, and better supports your global team.

For multinational organisations, assembling a strong benefits offering can be time-consuming and frustrating. Coordinating several brokers and negotiating distinct contracts consumes significant resources and produces disconnected systems with scattered data.

Consolidate all your global employee benefits on a single, unified platform. This simplifies multi-country benefits administration, gives you a central source of truth, reduces time and cost, and improves transparency—delivering a consistent, seamless experience for both HR teams and employees.

Offering salary alone no longer suffices to attract leading talent. To distinguish your organisation, you must provide a competitive benefits package that meets the diverse needs and expectations of an international workforce.

A single platform makes it simpler to deliver tailored, competitive local benefits at scale. It helps companies attract and retain top talent by offering benefits that are competitive and region-specific. With streamlined local compliance and self-service tools for employees to view, update and manage their benefits, businesses can provide a more personalised and engaging employee experience.

When administering benefits across multiple jurisdictions, adherence to local regulations quickly becomes complex. Each country enforces its own rules and standards, and ensuring compliance can place a heavy burden on HR teams. The potential for mistakes, fines, or legal complications only increases the pressure.

Please be advised that our priority is keeping you aligned with local legislation wherever your team is located. We manage the detailed compliance requirements so you can concentrate on delivering meaningful benefits to employees without the regulatory burden.

If payroll is not linked to your employee benefits, inconsistencies in allocations, deductions, and contributions can appear rapidly. That leads to confusion, unhappy employees, and additional work for administrators. Correcting such issues manually consumes time and increases the risk of costly errors. By integrating payroll with benefits, all records synchronise automatically. This eliminates mistakes, minimises manual fixes, and produces a more efficient workflow. Employees receive accurate benefits on schedule, boosting satisfaction, while HR and payroll teams can focus on strategic priorities rather than constant reconciliations.

Relying on multiple providers and disparate systems for global benefits quickly increases overall expense. Fees from each provider accumulate, straining budgets, lowering the quality of benefits available to employees, and complicating management.

Consolidating under a single point of contact simplifies everything. With one provider overseeing your global benefits, you can reduce costs, streamline administration, and devote more time to what matters most—looking after your people.

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

• Obtain an instant, consolidated view of employee benefits and enrolment, making it simple to understand the whole picture and to onboard or offboard employees in a few clicks

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

• Employees can easily enrol themselves and dependents, update personal details, and make election changes during enrolment—entirely online without paperwork or confusing forms

• View health plan information, including coverage options, costs, and benefits, to make more informed healthcare choices

• Keep all health benefits details in one place rather than hunting through emails or documents, and monitor health history and claims

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

About Kota

Kota provides a simple way to administer employee benefits for your team. We integrate directly with insurance and retirement providers so you can bypass traditional brokers and manage benefits setup, administration, and payments from one command centre. HR and Finance teams appreciate the lower time, cost, and complexity, while employees value our intuitive app for personalising and controlling benefits. Founded in Ireland, Kota supports hundreds of businesses and is backed by leading European investors such as EQT Ventures, Northzone and Frontline, having raised €7.6M to date. For more information, visit Kota.io.

Our partnership with SimplyInsured provides immediate access to comprehensive, compliant benefits inside the Remote platform. Through this integration, our US payroll clients can easily offer competitively priced, tailored insurance plans from trusted US carriers, while ensuring employees obtain the coverage they require within a single system.

Managing US health benefits is often complex, with strict local regulations and state-level compliance requirements. By integrating benefits into Remote’s payroll platform, companies can ensure adherence to US healthcare laws and local labour regulations. This approach simplifies everything from enrolment to ongoing administration.

Combining the expertise of Remote and SimplyInsured makes offering compliant, localised benefits more straightforward and efficient, delivering a superior employee experience across all States.

About SimplyInsured

SimplyInsured aims to remove the uncertainty from buying and navigating health insurance in the United States. By offering a 100% online platform for small business owners to purchase health insurance, the company is reshaping a $20 billion industry and has served over 100,000 customers in the last decade. The customer’s best interest is central to their work, and customer outcomes demonstrate the impact: by improving access to health insurance they 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.