What is Remote?

Remote is a cloud-based global HR, payroll, and workforce management platform that helps businesses hire, manage, and pay employees and contractors in countries around the world without the need to establish local legal entities. Designed for modern remote-first organizations and companies expanding internationally, Remote simplifies global employment by combining Employer of Record (EOR) services, global payroll, contractor management, HR administration, compliance automation, employee benefits, and workforce analytics into a single integrated platform.

As businesses increasingly build distributed teams across multiple countries, managing international employment has become significantly more complex. Every country has unique labor laws, tax regulations, payroll requirements, statutory benefits, employment contracts, and compliance obligations. Remote eliminates much of this complexity by providing organizations with the infrastructure needed to hire talent globally while remaining compliant with local regulations.

One of Remote’s most important capabilities is its Employer of Record (EOR) service. Traditionally, hiring full-time employees in another country requires companies to establish a local legal entity, register with government authorities, administer payroll, comply with employment laws, and manage statutory benefits. Remote acts as the legal employer on behalf of businesses, allowing organizations to hire international employees quickly while the employees continue working exclusively for the client company. This significantly reduces the time, cost, and administrative burden associated with global expansion.

Global payroll is another core component of the platform. Remote automates payroll calculations, tax deductions, statutory contributions, local compliance requirements, and salary payments across multiple countries. Organizations can process payroll for international employees through one centralized platform while ensuring timely payments, regulatory compliance, and accurate payroll reporting regardless of employee location.

Contractor management enables businesses to hire and manage independent contractors around the world through legally compliant workflows. Organizations can generate localized contractor agreements, collect tax documentation, automate invoicing, process international payments, and monitor contractor relationships while reducing legal risks associated with worker misclassification.

International hiring becomes considerably easier through Remote’s localized employment infrastructure. Companies can recruit talent from virtually anywhere while providing compliant employment agreements, onboarding experiences, payroll administration, benefits packages, and local HR support. This flexibility enables businesses to access global talent pools without being restricted by geographic boundaries.

Employee onboarding is fully digitized through guided workflows that simplify document collection, identity verification, tax information, banking details, policy acknowledgments, and employment paperwork. HR teams can onboard employees consistently across multiple countries while minimizing manual administrative tasks and improving the overall employee experience.

Compliance automation is one of Remote’s greatest strengths. Employment laws continuously evolve across different jurisdictions, making international workforce management increasingly difficult. Remote continuously updates local compliance requirements and automatically applies country-specific employment regulations, helping organizations reduce legal exposure while maintaining compliance throughout the employee lifecycle.

The platform generates localized employment contracts that comply with country-specific labor laws, statutory requirements, notice periods, probation rules, termination regulations, and mandatory employment protections. This helps organizations avoid common legal mistakes while ensuring employees receive contracts appropriate for their location.

Benefits administration allows businesses to provide competitive employee benefits across multiple countries. Depending on local availability, organizations can manage health insurance, retirement plans, paid leave, wellness programs, allowances, and other employee benefits while complying with regional employment standards and statutory obligations.

Time and attendance management enables employees to record working hours, submit leave requests, monitor paid time off balances, and manage attendance through self-service workflows. Managers and HR teams can review and approve requests while maintaining compliance with country-specific leave regulations.

Expense management simplifies reimbursement processes by allowing employees and contractors to submit expenses digitally. Organizations can review claims, approve reimbursements, process payments, and maintain centralized expense records without relying on manual paperwork or disconnected financial systems.

Remote also supports equity management, enabling organizations to distribute stock options and equity compensation to international employees while managing documentation, compliance, and reporting requirements associated with global equity programs.

The integrated HRIS (Human Resource Information System) provides centralized employee records, organizational charts, compensation information, employment history, reporting structures, document storage, and workforce data management. HR teams can maintain complete employee profiles throughout the employment lifecycle while reducing dependence on separate HR platforms.

Multi-currency payroll capabilities ensure employees and contractors can receive payments in their preferred currencies using local payment methods. Remote manages international payment processing, currency conversion, tax withholding, and payroll distribution while reducing the administrative complexity associated with cross-border compensation.

Tax compliance is handled through automated payroll calculations, statutory reporting, tax documentation, and local regulatory processes. Organizations gain confidence that payroll obligations are managed according to country-specific requirements while minimizing compliance risks.

Workforce reporting provides HR leaders and executives with insights into employee headcount, payroll costs, workforce distribution, hiring trends, compensation, contractor utilization, and global workforce performance. These analytics support strategic planning while improving visibility across distributed organizations.

Remote integrates with numerous HR, accounting, payroll, recruiting, identity management, and productivity platforms including BambooHR, Greenhouse, HiBob, Workday, Personio, Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite, Okta, Slack, Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, and many other business systems. These integrations synchronize workforce information while reducing duplicate administrative work.

Enterprise security features include encrypted data storage, role-based access controls, secure authentication, audit logs, privacy protections, compliance controls, and centralized administration that help organizations safeguard sensitive employee information while meeting international privacy regulations.

Remote is trusted by startups, SaaS companies, multinational enterprises, recruitment firms, healthcare organizations, financial institutions, educational organizations, consulting firms, nonprofit organizations, and remote-first businesses seeking to build globally distributed teams efficiently and compliantly.

As businesses continue expanding internationally, Remote scales alongside organizational growth by supporting additional countries, larger employee populations, expanded payroll operations, enterprise governance, advanced HR workflows, workforce analytics, and increasingly sophisticated international employment requirements.

By combining Employer of Record services, global payroll, contractor management, compliance automation, localized employment contracts, HR administration, benefits management, workforce reporting, enterprise integrations, and scalable global employment infrastructure into one comprehensive platform, Remote enables organizations to hire the best talent anywhere in the world while simplifying international workforce management and reducing legal complexity.