Remote

The infrastructure era of global employment starts today. We’ve spent the past seven years building the foundation that makes global payroll and employment actually work. Owned entities worldwide. In-house payroll engines. Compliance expertise built market by market. Tens of thousands of companies, and the world's biggest HR platforms, now rely on it. Today, we are going all in on the problems that matter most to our customers. Global payroll, trusted compliance, and employment infrastructure. The hard, consequential work that never gets easier. This is our next chapter as the leading global employment infrastructure. And we’re opening that infrastructure to the world. Any company, any tool, any AI agent can now plug directly into Remote through our MCP. You work how you want. We handle the hard parts. Our CEO Job van der Voort on what's next. Full story in the comments.

A US court just handed down a $6 million misclassification ruling. 💰 The workers at the center of it? You would never guess. Which of these workforces successfully took a company to court for treating them like employees while classifying them as contractors? 👇

Pay transparency. Multi-country payroll complexity. Meanwhile, AI is reshaping employment law faster than compliance teams can keep up. Our team is in five countries this May, covering all of this and more. Swipe to see where 👉

🇬🇧 UK employment law just had one of its biggest overhauls in decades. Phase 1 of the Employment Rights Act 2025 is now in effect. If you have team members in the UK, here's what changed: 🔹 Statutory sick pay now starts from day one (applies to all of UK, including Northern Ireland) 🔹 Paternity and parental leave are day-one rights (Great Britain only) 🔹 Protective awards for collective redundancy doubled (Great Britain only) 🔹 The Fair Work Agency is live and enforcing compliance (applies to all of UK, including Northern Ireland) And that's just Phase 1. October 2026 and January 2027 bring even bigger changes... we'll be covering those next. Remote's Compliance Watchtower identified these changes early and we've been updating systems and publishing guidance so customers can focus on running their teams. We put together an on-demand resource that breaks down the changes and what they mean for your payroll 👇

Sometimes, running global payroll can feel like charting your own path at lightspeed 🚀 This May 4th, we made that feeling literal to celebrate International Payroll Day 🌟 Four decisions. Four chances to get it wrong… or right One mission: hire a specialist from another planet without breaking a single employment law. Be wary… we’ve recovered transmissions from those who attempted this mission before: [05:04:01] COMP-1 "The compliance is strong with this one." [05:04:03] COMP-2 "A new hire from the outer systems, you say?" [05:04:07] COMP-1 "I've got a bad feeling about this tax code." [05:04:12] COMP-2 "You were supposed to bring balance to the books." Swipe through to see if you can make it to Mission Complete ➡️ Tell us… what's the most out-of-this-world payroll compliance issue you've heard of?

Remote's April updates cover benefits, automations, expenses, and payroll. Each one designed to catch things before they land on your desk. But don't just take our word for it... Olga Levchik, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Remote, walks through all of it: ✅ US Benefits Administration: Enrollment for health, dental, vision, and retirement now happens right inside Remote, powered by Clasp. One platform for benefits and employment. ✅ Conditional Workflow Logic: Automations now route the right action based on the situation. UK employee? Right policy attached. New hire accepts? Equipment request sent to IT. One flow instead of manual follow-ups. ✅ Upfront Expense Checks: Currency mismatches, insufficient documentation, and receipt discrepancies surfaced before submission... so they're less likely to show up after payroll. ✅ Automatic Payroll Collection: Canadian payroll funds now collect via Pre-Authorized Debit. One less manual step each cycle. ✅ Scheduled Report Delivery: Workforce data exports to external tools on a set schedule. Less time spent on recurring manual sends. ✅ Bulk Upload History: Every data import tracked with clear status. Less guesswork on whether something went through.

A doctor is our new CTO... Here's the story. In May 2020, I was CTO at Remote. It was mid-pandemic and we had started growing our engineering team. I had budget for one frontend developer and had already found my hire. I was prepping a job offer when I realized I had another interview for the same role within hours. I kept the meeting because the candidate's background perplexed me: first job listed as "Paediatrician". I met Sofia and the first thing I asked was "how does a doctor end up becoming a Frontend engineer?" She said: "I tried, I liked, I kept going". By the end of the hiring process, I knew I had two problems. 1. I was the one being interviewed by her and I failed. Sofia told me directly she wasn't super convinced on joining us; and 2. I now had two fantastic candidates but could only hire one person for the role. I called Job van der Voort (my co-founder) after the meeting and told him, "we have budget for one engineer, but I found two. The foundational team needs to be epic and we need to find a way to afford them both." He immediately said "do it, we'll find a way". I left out the part where I still had to convince her to join. It took a few more calls with Sofia and reaching out to people in our common network to convince her but I finally managed to hire her. Being a doctor is one of the hardest jobs in the world, high impact, often well compensated, lots of risk, and yet she decided to take up another very complicated craft, Frontend Engineering. Why? Because she liked it and no one could tell her otherwise. This determination struck a chord with me. She also aced our technical challenges and came back with feedback on how to improve them. Year after year, Sofia kept taking on more; going deeper and wider. She went from Frontend engineer to Tech Lead > Team Lead > Engineering Manager > Director > VP of Engineering. The VP of Engineering role came naturally to Sofia. She is a born leader and technically brilliant, but above all else, she cares deeply. She cares for the team, the company, our users, our customers - no rock left unturned. Where to now? Meanwhile, as co-founder, I go where the business needs me, from CTO to COO, and eventually, to President. Over time, as Remote grew, I took on more responsibilities and engineering became just one of the many pillars I was overseeing directly. I realized "overseeing directly" was mostly me clinging to my past CTO role. Sofia had taken over entirely, and garnered unanimous trust from our whole executive team. AI is rapidly changing everything, Remote went from "engineers can build" to "everyone builds". Every team is AI-pilled. It's a significant change in mentality and pace, requiring a fundamental embrace of this new reality. So, the decision was clear. We promoted the person who lives by "you can just do things", long before AI made it a slogan. Sofia S. is now CTO at Remote! Can't wait to see how she makes the role her own. As for me? Stay tuned to find out…

US benefits administration now built directly into Remote 🎉 With Remote Payroll, you can manage health, dental, vision, and retirement benefits using your existing broker and plans... all inside the platform. Powered by Clasp. Employers manage enrollments, approvals, and contribution changes alongside payroll. Employees move through a single guided journey from offer to enrollment. Everything in one place, no tool-switching. Bring your existing brokers and plans… Remote takes care of the rest.

Tomorrow, Remote ships something new for your HR toolkit. Can you guess what it is? 👇