Simplifying global benefits

Administering benefits across multiple countries is often complicated and poorly integrated with payroll. Relying on separate platforms for benefits and payroll, together with numerous providers and differing local rules, makes it hard to provide suitable benefits for your staff. Without an integrated approach, it becomes challenging to attract and retain top talent while keeping costs and administrative effort under control.

Remote customers can access benefits inside the payroll platform, which simplifies cross-country administration. With everything consolidated, you can roll out a comprehensive benefits package that reduces admin time, ensures compliance, controls costs and supports your international workforce.

For multinational organisations, providing attractive benefits can be resource intensive. Coordinating multiple brokers and negotiating varied contracts consumes time and creates fragmented systems with scattered data.

Consolidate all your global employee benefits on a single, unified platform. That centralisation simplifies running benefits across countries, gives you ready access to the information you need, saves time, lowers costs and improves transparency for both your teams and employees.

Salary alone is no longer sufficient to secure top talent. Organisations need a competitive benefits offering that appeals to a diverse global workforce and meets a range of needs and expectations.

A single platform makes it straightforward to deliver tailored, competitive local benefits at scale. This helps companies attract and keep top talent by offering regionally relevant plans, streamlined compliance and tools that let employees view, update and manage their own benefits for a more personalised experience.

Managing benefits across multiple jurisdictions quickly becomes complex due to differing local laws and standards. Staying compliant can overwhelm HR teams and increases the risk of mistakes, penalties or legal exposure.

We prioritise compliance with local legislation wherever your team is based. We take care of the detailed compliance work so you can concentrate on providing meaningful benefits to your employees without the regulatory hassle.

If payroll is not linked to employee benefits, problems can escalate rapidly. Variances in allocations, deductions and contributions can occur, causing confusion, dissatisfied employees and extra work for your administration team. Manually resolving these discrepancies consumes time and increases the chance of costly errors. Integrating payroll with benefits synchronises data automatically, which reduces errors and the need for manual corrections, creating a smoother workflow. Employees receive accurate benefits on time, improving satisfaction, and your HR and payroll teams can focus on strategic priorities rather than routine reconciliations.

Relying on multiple providers and systems for global benefits quickly drives up costs. Fees from each supplier add up, straining your budget, reducing benefit quality and complicating the entire process.

Consolidating under a single provider simplifies management, reduces expenses and frees up time so you can concentrate on supporting your employees.

• Access a tailored, integrated and user-friendly portal to manage benefits data and transactions

• Receive an immediate, consolidated view of employee benefits and enrolment, simplifying the overall picture and allowing you to onboard and offboard employees in just a few clicks

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

• Allow employees to enrol themselves and dependants, update details and make changes during enrolment—all online with no paperwork or confusing forms

• View health plan information, including coverage choices, costs and benefits to support better-informed healthcare decisions

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

The integration between Kota and Remote delivers instant-enrolment private medical insurance benefits directly to Remote Payroll customers. This connection lets companies set up and scale competitively priced local health plans from trusted providers within the Remote platform, simplifying the delivery of compliant, localised benefits across regions so team members receive the coverage they need without navigating regulatory complexity.

About Kota

Kota simplifies employee benefits administration. 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 benefit from lower time, cost and complexity, while employees appreciate our intuitive app to personalise and control their benefits. Proudly 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 instant access to comprehensive, compliant benefits within the Remote platform. Through this integration, our US payroll clients can effortlessly offer competitively priced, personalised insurance plans from trusted US carriers, ensuring employees receive the coverage they need, all within a single system.

Managing health benefits in the US can be complex, with strict regulations and compliance requirements that vary by State. Remote’s platform enables companies to integrate benefits with payroll operations to meet US healthcare laws and local labour rules, simplifying everything from enrolment to ongoing management.

Combining the expertise of Remote and SimplyInsured makes it easier and more efficient to provide compliant, localised benefits, ensuring an excellent employee experience across every State.

About SimplyInsured

SimplyInsured exists to remove the fear from buying and managing health insurance in the United States. By transforming how small businesses purchase health insurance via a 100% online platform, they are reshaping a $20 billion industry and have served over 100,000 customers in the last decade. Putting the customer first is at the core of their work, and their customer stories reflect real impact: by improving access to 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.