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How an EOR Platform Helps You Retain Your Talent Pool

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.

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What’s New in Playroll | May 2023

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

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

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

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.

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How to Pay Independent Contractors

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. 

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Pros and Cons of hiring international employees

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. 

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How do I employ someone outside the US?

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?

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How To Hire Foreign Workers

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. 

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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.

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Recruiting People From Outside the UK

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.

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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.

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Remote Payroll: 5 Tips to Lower Your Costs

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.

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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.

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How to Compliantly Hire International Employees

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.

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Top Global Payroll Providers: Best Service Providers In 2022

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.

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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.

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What Is an EOR and Why Should You Have One?

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.

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How To Pay Foreign Contractors

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!

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How Companies Set Salaries for Remote Jobs

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. 

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What Are Remote Work Tax Implications When Working Abroad?

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.

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A Guide to Paying International Employees for Services

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.

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Employees Working Remotely In Another Country

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.

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What Is Payroll Cost?

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.

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What Is an Employee Working From Home Allowance?

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.

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8 Benefits of International PEO

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.

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7 Payroll KPIs to Track for Your International Business

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.

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How to Make Hiring More Inclusive

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.

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What Is a PEO?

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?

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Remote Interview Process: Tips & Tricks for Employers

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.

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How to Implement Automated Payroll

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.

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8 Top Global HR Practices of 2022

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?

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Important Things Every HR Practitioner Should Consider when Choosing an International Employer of Record

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.

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Employer of Record VS PEO : Making the Right Choice

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.

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HR, Listen Up: Tips for Recruiting Internationally

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.

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Managing and Engaging Your Distributed Team

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.

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