Global benefits made simple

Coordinating employee benefits across multiple countries is often complicated and frequently sits apart from payroll systems. Managing separate benefits platforms, dealing with multiple providers, and meeting country-specific rules makes it difficult to deliver the right benefits for your people.

Remote customers can access benefits straight from the payroll system, making cross-country management much simpler. With everything centralised, you can roll out a complete benefits package that reduces admin time, keeps you compliant, controls costs and supports your international team.

For companies operating across borders, delivering excellent employee benefits can become a real headache. Managing multiple brokers and negotiating separate contracts eats up time and energy, and ends up with disconnected systems and scattered information.

Manage all your global employee benefits from one unified platform. That central view makes it simpler and more efficient to run benefits across jurisdictions, giving you the information you need in one place so you save time, reduce costs, and boost transparency for both you and your people.

Basic pay alone is no longer enough to win top candidates. To stand out, organisations need competitive benefits that resonate with a diverse, international workforce and meet a range of expectations.

A single platform makes it easier to deliver customised, competitive local benefits at scale. It helps firms attract top talent and retain staff by offering region-specific packages. With streamlined regional compliance and tools that let employees view, edit and manage their own benefits, businesses can provide a more personalised and engaging employee experience.

Managing benefits across different countries means juggling varied local rules and standards, which can quickly overwhelm HR teams. Staying compliant is time-consuming and increases the risk of errors, fines or legal exposure.

Our priority is making sure you remain compliant with local laws no matter where your team is based. We take care of the detailed compliance work so you can focus on offering meaningful benefits to your employees without the usual compliance stress.

When payroll isn’t linked to employee benefits, issues can escalate quickly. Mismatches in allocations, deductions and contributions may occur, causing confusion, dissatisfied employees and extra work for your admin team. Manually correcting these problems is time-consuming and raises the risk of costly mistakes. Integrating payroll with employee benefits ensures automatic synchronisation, which reduces errors and the need for manual fixes. The result is a smoother workflow where employees receive the correct benefits on time, improving satisfaction. HR and payroll teams are freed from constant double-checking and can focus on higher-value work.

Relying on multiple providers and systems for global benefits quickly becomes expensive. Fees from each supplier add up, putting pressure on your budget, lowering the quality of benefits available to employees and complicating the whole process.

Switching to a single point of contact makes management simpler. With one provider handling all your global benefits, you reduce costs, streamline administration, and free up time to focus on what really matters—looking after your people.

• Access a personalised, integrated and user-friendly portal for managing benefits information and transactions

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

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

• Easily enrol themselves and their dependents, update details and make changes during enrolment — all online with no paperwork or confusing forms

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

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

Kota and Remote have partnered to deliver instant‑enrolment private medical insurance benefits straight to Remote Payroll customers. This integration lets companies set up and scale competitively priced health plans from trusted local providers inside the Remote platform. By using this solution, businesses can simplify offering compliant, localised benefits so employees across regions get the cover they need without having to navigate complex regulations.

About Kota

Kota makes administering employee benefits straightforward for your team. They integrate directly with insurance and retirement providers so you can skip traditional brokers and set up, manage and pay for benefits from one command centre. HR and Finance teams value the time, cost and complexity savings, and employees appreciate 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 such as EQT Ventures, Northzone and Frontline, having raised €7.6M to date. For more information, visit Kota.io.

Our partnership with SimplyInsured delivers immediate access to comprehensive, compliant benefits directly inside the Remote platform. Through this integration, our US payroll clients can easily offer competitively priced, personalised insurance plans from trusted US carriers while ensuring employees get the cover they need, all within a single system.

Managing US health benefits can be complicated, with strict local regulations and state-by-state compliance requirements. By using Remote’s platform, companies can integrate benefits seamlessly into payroll operations, ensuring compliance with US healthcare laws and local labour regulations. This simplifies the entire process, from enrolment through ongoing management.

With Remote and SimplyInsured working together, providing compliant, localised benefits is now simpler and more efficient, ensuring a strong employee experience across every State.

About SimplyInsured

SimplyInsured exists to remove the fear from buying and navigating health insurance in the United States. By changing how small business owners purchase health insurance with a fully online platform, they’re transforming a $20 billion-dollar industry and have served over 100,000 customers in the past decade. Doing what’s best for the customer is central to their approach, and customer stories show the impact: by changing health insurance, they’re literally saving lives. Based in San Francisco, SimplyInsured was founded in 2012 and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Polaris Ventures, and Y-Combinator.