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In an era of global mobility and growing competition for skilled professionals, South African businesses are faced with the challenge of retaining their top talent. Playroll recently hosted an exclusive roundtable discussion to address the growing “Brain Drain” phenomenon in South Africa. HR experts and business leaders joined forces to explore the rising talent exodus, discuss viable retention solutions, and offer a fresh perspective on relocation.

What’s New in Playroll | May 2023
Welcome to the May edition of What’s New in Playroll. This month is all about improving remote hiring & onboarding. Source global talent, forecast employee leave and streamline employee onboarding with an updated overview in your Admin panel.
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How an EOR Platform Helps You Retain Your Talent Pool
In an era of global mobility and growing competition for skilled professionals, South African businesses are faced with the challenge of retaining their top talent. Playroll recently hosted an exclusive roundtable discussion to address the growing “Brain Drain” phenomenon in South Africa. HR experts and business leaders joined forces to explore the rising talent exodus, discuss viable retention solutions, and offer a fresh perspective on relocation.

What’s New in Playroll | May 2023
Welcome to the May edition of What’s New in Playroll. This month is all about improving remote hiring & onboarding. Source global talent, forecast employee leave and streamline employee onboarding with an updated overview in your Admin panel.

Enhance workforce efficiency with our time management tracker
Who can use it?
Employers, People Managers and Employees.

Public Holiday Tracker
Who can use it?
Global employers and distributed employees.

Simplify your talent search Playroll’s global recruitment support
Who can use it?
Employers looking to hire talent outside of their local territory that don’t have access to local recruitment agencies.
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What’s New in Playroll | May 2023
Welcome to the May edition of What’s New in Playroll. This month is all about improving remote hiring & onboarding. Source global talent, forecast employee leave and streamline employee onboarding with an updated overview in your Admin panel.
How an EOR Platform Helps You Retain Your Talent Pool
In an era of global mobility and growing competition for skilled professionals, South African businesses are faced with the challenge of retaining their top talent. Playroll recently hosted an exclusive roundtable discussion to address the growing “Brain Drain” phenomenon in South Africa. HR experts and business leaders joined forces to explore the rising talent exodus, discuss viable retention solutions, and offer a fresh perspective on relocation.
Using the Playroll Onboarding Tracker
Who should use it?
Anyone within an organisation tasked with managing talent, this could include employers or anyone within an HR function.
Managing International Business Expansion and Remote Teams
Key strategies for managing international business expansion and remote teams when entering a foreign territory.
Playroll and Jobbatical partner to simplify global employee relocation
We're excited to announce a new partnership between Playroll and Jobbatical, two innovative companies at the forefront...
The top international business expansion strategies for 2023
Achieve global growth and success with proven strategies for international business expansion. Navigate new markets, minimize risks, and unlock new revenue streams.
What are the effects of globalisation on growing businesses?
Discover how globalisation affects growing businesses, creating new opportunities and challenges. Access new markets and top talent, but navigate compliance, visa, and payroll complexities to stay competitive.
What are global mobility services?
What is global mobility services, and how do they unlock a world of opportunity for companies looking to hire in a foreign country
Global Employer of Record partner, Playroll, Debuts in Hibob Marketplace, Unlocking Employee Data Sync
Playroll announce their latest smart integration, this time with HR automation and employee experience platform, Hibob.
How to Stay Compliant as a Global Employer
Global employers face important questions before even considering how to comply in every country where they operate. This includes understanding what regulations they need to comply with and how to handle regulatory changes.
Playroll and Ravio Announce Partnership with a focus on Compensation Benchmarking
Our partnership with Ravio, a real-time compensation benchmarking provider, simplifies global hiring and compensation benchmarking for startups and enterprise businesses. This creates a powerful solution that we are thrilled to announce.
Employment Records: What They Are, and Why They Matter for Global Businesses
Managing employment records is essential for global businesses to comply with regulations and avoid negative impacts on their expansion plans. Despite not being glamorous, employment records carry significant obligations for HR professionals
How to Hire Globally in 2023: a Guide for Business Leaders in Global Hiring
In this post, we look at the benefits of global hiring, and best practices for making the most of the global talent pool.
Remote Interviews: 7 Tips to Improve Your Company’s Process
In this post we take a look at, the 7 tips of improving your companies process relating to ‘Remote work’: Starting with a perfected remote interview process.
Playroll: Independent contractor management and payment processing made simple
Simplify hiring and payment processing for skilled professionals. Streamline recruitment, payment processing, and compliance for HR professionals in the evolving world of contracting and B2B
Adapting to Remote Work in 2023: 4 Key HR Trends
Adapting businesses in 2023 means more non-traditional hiring, quiet hiring, flexible work, and competitive benefits packages. Explore 4 key HR trends.
Permanent Establishment Risk: Why it Matters, and How to Manage it Successfully
Permanent Establishment Risk what it is, the triggers & penalties. Managing it successfully is crucial for businesses with global teams, especially as remote work rises
Navigating the Ins and Outs of Hiring in South Africa: Playroll Sponsors Cape Town Recruitment Event
Expand your workforce with global recruitment insights. Learn about talent attraction, relocation, and hiring remote software developers.
Employer of Record: What They Are, and How They Help Businesses Grow
Employer of Record – EOR simplifies hiring foreign workers for global expansion by handling compliance, payroll, and contracts while retaining company control
Top 3 Benefits of Global Talent Mobility
Top 3 Benefits of Global Talent Mobility: cost savings, wider talent pool, and higher retention rates. But businesses need to consider legal compliance.
How to Build a Global Talent Mobility Strategy
Learn how to build a winning global talent mobility strategy. Address remote work trends, update HR policies, and provide comprehensive training for distributed teams.
Remote-Readiness Checklist: 5 Tips to Harness Global Talent Mobility
Maximise your company’s potential by implementing a Remote-Readiness Checklist. Explore 5 essential tips to harness Global Talent Mobility.
Building a Global Talent Mobility Framework to Retain Your Best People
Retain your best people with a global talent mobility framework. Learn why employee relocation is important, costs involved, and how to make it work
Background and reference checking leader, Zinc, teams up with Playroll.
Zinc, background and reference checking tool, simplifies global hiring by offering swift and compliant cross-border checks. With Zinc, canreduce risk without adding unnecessary drag to their global expansion, while candidates retain ownership of their data for transparency.
HR Cost Calculator: Finding the True Cost of Hiring Remote Employees
Global talent mobility solves a number of thorny problems for businesses, large and small. Freed from the constraints of geography and the limitations of local talent pools, recruiters can now access the exact skills they need, down the road, or across continents.
How to Pay Independent Contractors
As the race for top talent goes global, more and more companies are looking for ways to differentiate themselves and attract the skills they need to grow. One of the best ways to accomplish that is by offering independent contractors their dream roles, and paying them well and on time.
OfferZen & Playroll: connecting talent with opportunity, across Africa and Europe.
In the words of Philip Joubert, CEO of OfferZen, “great software engineers are everywhere”. That’s truer now than it’s ever been, but how do companies move highly skilled engineering talent from “everywhere” to “here”, and start to reap the benefits of global talent mobility?
Playroll Attends Going Global Live 2022: Europe’s Leading Business Show for Global Expansion
Going Global Live is where Europe’s movers and shakers meet to network with over 5000 like minds, build alliances and...
Employee or Contractor? Guide to Employee Misclassification for US Companies
What’s in a name? When it comes to classifying workers, everything. Accurate categorisation of workers in line with IRS guidelines is a critical priority for all companies. Misclassifying employees as independent contractors deprives workers of employee protections such as leave, insurance and social security. It also robs federal and state coffers of tax revenue.
Playroll in sync with BambooHR: Seamless Integration for Employee Data and Leave
Exciting news for HR teams everywhere: Playroll now integrates smoothly with BambooHR, a leading Human Resources Information System.
Hire the right talent, wherever they are: leading assessment platform Testlify partners with Playroll.
To succeed at building remote teams, businesses need digital tools to measure skills accurately and quickly. That’s a difficult balance to strike, and our new partners at Testlify have got it down to a fine art. We’re delighted to welcome Testlify into our partner network.
Leading Tech Evaluation Platform Geektastic Joins Forces with Playroll
Amidst the ongoing tech talent crunch, hiring developers is a vital challenge for global companies. But finding the right developers is a critical priority: the costs of mis-hires can be dire, especially for software development roles.
Quick Guide to Improving Your Remote Interview Process
Interviewing candidates for distributed teams comes with its own challenges and priorities. Here is our quick guide to...
Gearing up for the Open Finance era: Playroll joins forces with SHIFT
Playroll is proud to announce our latest partnership with SHIFT: The Open Finance Community.
Pros and Cons of hiring international employees
By now, it’s become obvious that hiring international workers is the key to global expansion in the remote-first era. The global talent market is giving companies a competitive edge by connecting them to the people they need, wherever they live, and without the costs of relocation. And as diverse teams come together in cyberspace to solve complex problems, they drive innovation and deepen international partnerships.
How do I employ someone outside the US?
If you represent a US-based company, you’re probably very familiar with the conversation around outsourcing, talent shortages and telework. And if you’ve decided to take a dive into the global talent pool, you’re on the right track. But how do you go about signing up the talented developers, writers, technicians or marketers that you need?
Africa’s Leading Employer of Record Attends AFSIC 2022
We’re excited to rub shoulders with the business leaders and decision makers who are there to create lasting, transformative connections. And we’re ready to play our part in opening Africa’s doors to the world.
How To Hire Foreign Workers
We talk a great deal about the benefits of hiring out of country talent but where should companies get started?
Here’s our quick guide to global expansion in 4 steps, with the secret sauce right at the end.
World leading advisory platform ReachX partners with Playroll
The remote-first era is challenging companies to solve two interconnected problems: funding global growth, and adapting to unprecedented talent mobility. Those are the challenges that ReachX and Playroll are solving.
Guide to Hiring Employees outside the USA
Finding the ideal candidate. The good news is that there are highly skilled, English-speaking foreign nationals looking for remote work. And US-based companies are well positioned to take their share of this booming market.
How to find talent outside the UK
The contraction in the British labour market, often colourfully dubbed the “Talent Exodus”, has caused UK-based companies to rethink. Recruiting people from outside the UK is no longer a luxury or a last resort; it’s a necessity.
Recruiting People From Outside the UK
UK-based companies are reaping the benefits of employing overseas workers. By riding the wave of digital transformation into the remote/hybrid era, they’re gaining a competitive edge. The English language and the British Pound are also powerful draw cards for remote workers around the world.
How to Employ Overseas Workers in the UK
As an increasing number of UK workers join what has been called an “exodus” of talent, British businesses are adapting. Many of them are turning to international hiring to plug personnel gaps with highly skilled digital nomads.
The Playroll Guide to Permanent Establishment Risk and How to Navigate It
High Risk, High Reward? (Not Always)
So you’ve decided to expand internationally? 🚀
First of all, congratulations! Secondly, the party’s over. Let’s cut to the chase; permanent establishment risks (PE risk) are as serious as microwaving fish in open-plan offices. Not that you need new offices for overseas expansion.
Global Payroll Solution Providers: How to Choose One
Global payroll solution providers aren’t new, but the industry has grown rapidly in response to the unprecedented growth in remote work. And it’s not just that there are now more providers than ever before: they’re also better because they’ve had to adapt and find innovative solutions to business challenges. Companies seeking to tap into the global talent pool are, in a sense, spoilt for choice.
Remote Payroll: 5 Tips to Lower Your Costs
Remote teams are amazing cost-cutters: office space and transport costs are all a distant memory by now. But implementing a remote payroll process isn’t cheap, and every business that uses remote workers needs to find ways to optimize their return on investment.
Global Payroll Strategy: Why You Need One
Global payroll is here to stay. With the rapid acceleration of remote work and international hiring, developing a global payroll strategy is a priority for companies looking to expand and remain competitive. Global payroll solutions allow you to streamline payroll processes for greater efficiency and accuracy. They can even unlock surprising benefits like payroll fraud mitigation and increased staff retention.
Here’s how.
How to choose a global payroll provider
Social: Global payroll providers are a dime a dozen, but how do you evaluate them to find the right fit for your business? What are the criteria, and which ones matter the most? Here is our 7-step guide to separating wheat from chaff.
How to Compliantly Hire International Employees
Hiring international talent can be challenging, especially when you are not in tune with foreign compliance and taxation laws. This blog aims to help companies expand their talent search to foreign grounds by providing an overview of hiring international employees and what to expect from the process.
Global Payroll Process: How To Implement Yours
Implementing a global payroll process is a necessity for companies seeking to expand their global presence. Here’s our quick guide to implementing your global payroll solution.
The How to for Hiring Remote Employees In Other Countries
Effective hiring remote employees abroad requires compliance with local laws, taxes and onboarding. Avoid misclassification, liability and policies
Playroll and Offerzen: Teaming Up to Beat the Tech Talent Shortage
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Top Global Payroll Providers: Best Service Providers In 2022
Global payroll processing is evolving as more of the global workforce goes remote. We’ve put together a list of the providers that have impressed us the most in 2022, based on their global reach, the services they offer and what their customers have to say about their experiences. Here’s our quick guide, with the occasional hat tip.
Remote Payroll: Setting Up New Remote Employees
So, you’re embracing the future of dispersed workforces, with all the benefits they bring: multinational talent, trimmed-down overheads and more. Now, you need to set up a remote payroll process that can scale and support your global expansion. Of course, there are plenty of boxes to tick when you’re devising a winning remote payroll strategy: cost, ease of use and compliance.
What Is an EOR and Why Should You Have One?
With globalization leading to many businesses establishing international entities, international compliance laws can be challenging to grasp and pursue. This is where EoRs fit in the picture – as their purpose is to ensure that you are expanding complientantly and to take care of day-to-day HR functions of international entities so that you don’t have to.
How To Pay Foreign Contractors
To maintain that excellent relationship with your international contractors, there is nothing as crucial as paying them right and on time – after all, with all their hard work, they do deserve the punctual compensation you promised them!
Playroll & OfferZen Partnership
With 200+ new developers added each week from across Europe and Africa, OfferZen makes it easy to identify and engage with your next technical hire.
How Companies Set Salaries for Remote Jobs
If you are a recruitment manager, then you are undoubtedly well aware of the many changes that have occurred in recent recruitment. As a result of these changes, traditional work patterns have been replaced by remote jobs that require different metrics when setting salaries.
What Are Remote Work Tax Implications When Working Abroad?
Remote working policies have been introduced during the global lockdown. While the world was in a pandemic-induced cocoon, employers have been forced to shift their operations online. They soon realised that their businesses could still function smoothly while employees worked from the comfort of their own homes.
What Are the Best Ways to Pay Your Global Contractors?
Managing international employees can get challenging and paying them can be even more complicated. Luckily there are many paying structures you can follow. Read on to find out more.
A Guide to Paying International Employees for Services
Managing an international payroll is definitely no walk in the park, with endless ribbons of red tape crisscrossing your way forward. First off, you must decide whether to manage your payroll with a global payroll provider or in-house. In this blog, we have compiled some important steps to assist you.
Employees Working Remotely In Another Country
Even the shrewdest math whiz, knows handling ex-pat taxes is no task to take on alone. Remote work is now a norm for many professionals and employees alike. Along with the ‘gig’ growth of the economy, which rocketed during the Covid-19 pandemic, the most remarkable change is the mobility and flexibility of remote workers, who can criss-cross the global borders without taking a day’s leave.
What Is Payroll Cost?
Running a business can be expensive. As the saying goes, you have to spend money to make it.
Across all industries, the largest cost of doing business by far is labour—also known as payroll—which can account for up to 60% of your total expenses. This is especially true for service industries where staff represent a major facet of the delivered product.
What Is an Employee Working From Home Allowance?
Even as we emerge from the pandemic, there will be hangover effects from the societal shift that ripple throughout the entire global workforce, impacting the way businesses operate. While some behaviors and practices will be shed, others will be cemented in modern workplace culture.
PEO vs GEO: Which Is Better for Your Business?
Thanks to the internet, companies no longer need to limit their recruitment efforts to the confines of their city or country. Instead, they can take their pick of top talent from across the globe.
7 Common Payroll Errors & How to Avoid Them
To run a successful business, you need to have a strong grasp on how to do payroll, along with the system and processes in place. Employees must be paid, government forms filled and taxes submitted—all in a timely and accurate manner.
Payments to Foreign Contractors for Services: 4 Mistakes to Avoid
Hiring international contractors is undeniably exciting: beyond gaining entry to the needs of consumers abroad, venturing off the beaten path to build your team has the power to breathe new life into your workforce.
Employer of Record vs PEO: What’s the Difference?
If your business is operating internationally, innovative technologies can streamline countless HR tasks like payroll processing (in numerous currencies), tax reporting and financial planning for future expansion.
8 Benefits of International PEO
International PEO streamlines global expansion, ensuring compliance and mitigating risks. Benefits include quick market entry, cost-effective payroll and benefits, risk mitigation, flexibility, local expertise, and focus on business growth.
7 Payroll KPIs to Track for Your International Business
Managing payroll is one of the most critical tasks an international business must regularly perform. Seeing as it’s often the largest expense area for any company, creating an efficient process ensures that costs can stay low, employees can remain satisfied and the business is compliant with local employment and tax laws.
What Is a Global Employment Organization (GEO)?
By 2025, it’s estimated that over half of all Fortune 500 companies will have employees in emerging markets. If you want to join their ranks, you’ll quickly discover that hiring remote employees from other countries may involve many legal implications.
How to Make Hiring More Inclusive
The world is changing by the minute—and in the internet age, we have substantially more access to information about different cultures and identities than ever before. For this reason, diversity hiring has become more prevalent.
What Is Payroll Data and Why Is It Important?
If you run an international business, you know the benefits of global expansion. With offices and employees in Paris, Hong Kong, and Rio, the world truly is your oyster.
What Is a PEO?
For businesses of any size, human resources can be complicated. Small or medium-sized businesses may have trouble funding fully equipped HR departments. On the other hand, larger, multinational companies may find themselves bogged down in the conflicting morass of international laws. In both situations, a PEO may provide a solution.
But what is a PEO?
Remote Interview Process: Tips & Tricks for Employers
Before hiring remote employees in other countries, you better get to know them first. With digital communication diversifying the way we interact, it’s no surprise that many of us are looking for better ways to use the virtual services at hand to remove the geographical barriers within the workplace. For employers, remote interviewing is a highly effective and convenient way to evaluate candidates. That said, it comes with its own unique set of challenges.
How to Pay International Employees
Are you about to hire foreign employees? Don’t forget to pay them. Here’s how to pay international employees.
How to Hire a Virtual Assistant
Savants of scheduling, masters of meticulous planning, gurus of getting stuff done—whatever you call them, virtual assistants can be a boon for many businesses.
How to Implement Automated Payroll
In the internet age, the automation of everyday business tasks has skyrocketed—when companies automate basic operational processes, employees can spend more time on high-value tasks like collaborative projects, business development at large and more.
How to Do Payroll for an International Business
Whether you’ve based your international business in Boston or Brussels, Toronto or Tokyo, understanding how to do payroll is essential.
7 Benefits of Using an Employer of Record sevices
Your business is growing—you’re breaking the mold, and now you’re ready to break into new, international markets.
Complete Guide: Hiring Remote Employees in Other Countries
The world is full of talent. From top coders to the best customer service providers, the global workforce offers a broad range of skilled workers. If you’re looking to recruit the top candidates in your industry, it could be time to consider hiring remote international employees.
8 Top Global HR Practices of 2022
You’ve effectively overcome the obstacles of your business’s infancy, and you’re ready to take your operation worldwide – into South Africa, the United Kingdom, or North America. But is your HR department ready to take an international approach?
Important Things Every HR Practitioner Should Consider when Choosing an International Employer of Record
Times have definitely changed and so have HR practices. Gone are the days when talent is managed under one roof and where payroll is somewhat of a breeze. With globalization taking over, HR gurus are faced with a new world of opportunities and challenges regarding managing talent on a global scale across different time zones and cultural diversities.
How to Use Employer of Record Services to Scale Global Teams
If all this talk about globalisation has sent you into a frenzy, then an Employer of Record partner might just be your saving grace as you navigate the winding (sometimes potholed) roads of expansion!
Employer of Record VS PEO : Making the Right Choice
Learn about the key differences between an Employer of Record (EOR) and a Professional Employer Organisation (PEO) in this comprehensive article. Find out which option is best for your business needs and discover the benefits of using an EOR for international expansion or a PEO for managing domestic HR services.
Choosing the Right Employer of Record Partner for Overseas Expansion
Full disclosure—we’re not the only Employer of Record (EOR) partner around. You’ve got options. In fact, we’ll wager you’ve discovered several Playroll alternatives already along the path to finding this article.
Hiring and Firing Overseas Employees: How to Play It Safe
Recruiting internationally can be tricky, especially when it comes to the nitty-gritty of hiring and (sometimes) dismissing international staff. Before diving head first into international talent pools, it is important to know the employment rules of foreign countries and play by them too!
To Hire Independent Contractors or Not to Hire Independent Contractors?
The new-age gig economy is made up of the movers and shakers of modern-day employment – independent contractors, entrepreneurs, influencers, freelancers, and other professionals who prefer are redefining the workforce by choosing a and chasing balance over paychecks. But is hiring an independent contractor really worth it?
How Remote-First Employers Can Effectively Combine Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication
Going ‘remote-first’ with HR policy brings a flurry of perks you’ve likely been lectured about at length already by your social media feed. If you’re sold and already doing it, then knowing how to balance synchronous and asynchronous communication should be high up on your ‘to-do’ list.
Leadership in the Age of Globalisation: How to Get In Tune With a Global Mindset
In the workplace transformation and globalisation age, leaders need to adopt a global mindset. This will enable them to engage and interact with people from around the world without allowing their stereotypes to get in the way.
How to Onboard Remote Employees and Build Employer Brand
Your first day in the office; things feel rosy. People shake your hand and look you in the eye. Your boss organises pizza. When employee onboarding is sloppy, novelty and excitement give way to pressure and anxiety.
Common Compliance Mistakes You Don’t Wanna Be Making
Navigating foreign HR compliance can be tricky, and one mistake can result in a hefty fine, reputational damage, or time behind bars. Common compliance mistakes can result from not being prepared, such as incorrectly classifying employees or making errors regarding taxes.
HR, Listen Up: Tips for Recruiting Internationally
Recruiting internationally is no childsplay and every step of the process ought to be taken seriously! Finding the right talent can be difficult especially when they are located on the other end of the world – but do not be discouraged. With the right EoR partner or recruitment strategy, finding and onboarding the best international talent can become a whole lot easier.
What Is Global Talent Mobility? And Why Do So Many Companies Suck at It?
Global talent mobility optimises workforce management, fills skill gaps, and boosts retention, engagement, performance, and growth for organisations.
Managing and Engaging Your Distributed Team
Working with a distributed team has its advantages and its challenges. Coordinating schedules and communication across different locations, time-zones and cultures can be a tad stressful. We’ll walk you through a few tips on how to best engage with your distributed team members.
Don’t Get It Twisted: Working From Home, Remote, and Hybrid Work Are Not the Same
Out with the old and in with the new. Old forms of working are fast heading for the exit door while newer, flexible options are taking over. Here is how to tell the difference between remote, hybrid and work from home solutions.
Where to Find the Best Tech Talent Outside the US
Outsourcing global talent is the new normal. As mobility increases, more companies are looking to boast the sharpest and shiniest talent – broadening their scope to a global scale.
Move With the Times: Why You Should Implement a Talent Relocation Policy
With employee migration and resignation on the rise, employers have to come up with ways to retain their best talent even when they choose to relocate. Having a relocation policy in place sets the tone for flexibility and appeals to the modern-day employee.
What Is Remote Work Policy and Why Should You Have One?
With remote working gaining popularity, companies are challenged to go back to the drawing board to draw up new inclusive policies that empower HR leaders and talent as we dive into the future of work.
How Will Metaverse Change Remote Work, Recruitment and Employer Brand?
How, exactly, might Metaverse change recruitment and employer brand?