Overview
Remote at a Glance
Best for: Early to mid-stage global tech companies
Price range: $29-$699/employee/month
Benefits & HR: Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plans, pensions, paid holidays, equity
Automatic tax filing: Yes
Apps: iOS, Android
Features and Add-ons
Businesses around the world use Remote to hire, pay, and manage remote employees scattered across the world. Remote currently supports hiring in 85+ countries where they operate EOR, and 180+ for contractor management, with new countries added constantly. Because of Remote’s 100% owned-entity model, you have access to local legal and HR experts for additional hiring and compliance guidance.
Remote can help you hire contractors, part-time employees, and full-time employees in any of the countries where it operates. Employment contracts are country-specific so that they comply with local employment laws. In addition, Remote helps you tailor your company’s benefits package so that it’s relevant to employees in each country and competitive with packages offered by local companies.
One of the key benefits of Remote is that it enables you to run payroll for employees in multiple countries - even if you don’t need an EOR service. Details for all of your global employees are found in your Remote dashboard, making it easy to enter hours and approve payments for employees regardless of what country they’re in. All payments are made in employees’ local currencies with no foreign transaction fees.
Remote also handles the process of securely transferring intellectual property (IP) from remote employees to your home country. Remote has its own legal entities in every country where it operates, ensuring your IP is never transferred to local partners without your knowledge. In addition, Remote writes IP protection into your employment contracts and helps you update your contracts when IP laws change.
To scale your business, Remote offers integrations with popular applicant tracking software, human resource information system software, and payroll software. The platform also has an API for businesses that want to create their own custom integrations. All Remote integrations are free to use.
- Hire international employees in 85+ countries; and contractors in 180+ countries
- Pay contractors and employees in their local currencies with no fees
- Access to local HR and legal experts in countries where you have employees
- Benefits packages tailored to each country
- Securely transfer intellectual property from remote employees to your home country
- Free applicant tracking, HR, and payroll integrations
Tax Compliance
One of the advantages of using Remote is that it automatically handles tax compliance in all the jurisdictions where you have remote employees. This is important because payroll tax laws and requirements are different in every country, and it can be difficult to know what forms you need to file, how much you need to pay, or when you need to pay.
Remote automatically tracks your tax liability, finds deductions, and files your taxes in each country and local jurisdiction where you have employees. It also issues tax documents to contractors and employers, including 1099 forms if your company has remote independent contractors in the United States.
Payment Options
Remote enables you to automate payroll, but invoices from contractors must be manually approved and paid. The platform supports one-time and recurring non-payroll payments such as bonuses, commissions, travel allowances, and more.
Your business can pay invoices by bank wire, Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) bank transfer, Automated Clearing House (ACH) bank transfer, credit card, or debit card. Credit card payments incur a 3% processing fee, but all other payment methods are free with Remote.
Employees are automatically paid in their local currency. Remote doesn’t charge any fees for currency exchange.
Remote App
The Remote platform is fairly easy to use despite the inherent complexity of managing payroll for employees across different countries, currencies, and regulatory frameworks.
You can easily see all of the remote employees your company has connected to Remote, and the dashboard notifies you if you need to approve timesheets or pay contractors’ invoices. You can filter employees by country, salary, payroll date, role, and more if you have a large team. A run payroll tab simplifies the process of processing payments for many employees at once.
The dashboard has separate tabs for bonus payments and time off. This is helpful since these are two of the most commonly accessed features besides those used for payroll tracking. Tax and contract documents are also relatively accessible, although they’re not as neatly laid out as payroll data.
Remote also has iOS and Android mobile app capabilities to make global management even easier.
Remote Pricing
Remote offers fair and transparent pricing with 6 different price plans.
First off, Remote offers a lightweight free HRIS plan to help you manage all of your employees in one place. Some of their top features include guided onboarding and offboarding, time off tracking and attendance, expense management and reimbursement, and employee self-serve on the platform.
The Contractor Management plan starts at $29 and enables you to onboard and manage independent contractors in 180+ countries. You can approve and pay invoices with no foreign exchange fees, and Remote will automatically generate required tax forms for your contractors (such as 1099 forms in the US). You can also upgrade to $99 and receive everything in Remote Contractor Management with added indemnity coverage.
The Employer of Record plan enables you to hire part-time and full-time employees. It offers support for payroll, benefits management, and taxes and gives you access to country-specific HR and legal experts when you need them. This plan starts at $599 per employee per month.
The Global Payroll plan starts at $50 per employee per month and enables you to break down payroll reports by country and automatically keeps your contracts up to date as local employment laws change.
Lastly, they have a Remote Talent plan, where for just $119 per month, talent acquisition leaders can reach top-tier professionals from every corner of the globe using their remote job board.
Bottom Line
Remote is a unique global HR and payroll platform designed for businesses that want to hire contractors and employees from around the world. With Remote, you can onboard, manage, and pay employees in 180+ countries. The platform enables you to pay employees compliantly in their local currency, set up country-specific benefits packages, and automatically file taxes in every jurisdiction where you operate. You can hire, manage, and pay your global team with confidence with Remote.
