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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. But the market is awash with UK-based companies, all contending for the attention of skilled digital nomads.
It’s time for companies to get proactive about attracting talent.
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.
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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.
How to Hire Remote Employees In Other Countries
The complexities involved in hiring remote employees in other countries are often overwhelming for employers so therefore they opt to avoid hiring internationally. However, the workforce’s drastic evolution could leave them at a disadvantage. Here we take a look at solutions to make hiring abroad quick and easy.
Playroll and Offerzen: Teaming Up to Beat the Tech Talent Shortage
11 August 2022, 17:00 CEST
Global Payroll Processing: The Best 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.
Tax Implications When Working From Another Country
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 PEOs
If you’re looking to add a talented global workforce to your operations, one of the greatest challenges faced by businesses today involves upholding comprehensive procedures regarding recruitment, retention, compensation, benefits and compliance.
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
If you were wondering what the difference between an Employer of Record and a Professional Employer Organisation is, then you’ve come to the right place. It is important to know the difference between the two, especially if you are considering making use of the services of either. Not to worry though, we’ll lay it all out for you.
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.
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?
What’s the Difference Between an Employer of Record and an Employment Outsourcing Solution?
According to Forbes, remote and hybrid work has been on the increase and will continue to soar as technology breaks down the barriers to growing hybrid and remote teams.
What Is Global Talent Mobility? And Why Do So Many Companies Suck at It?
What is talent mobility? In short, it’s an organization’s ability to move talent strategically between roles. Of course, you knew that already. We threw it in for the obligatory SEO perks.
What Is an Employee of Record Partner and How Can They Help Me Expand Globally?
It’s almost cliche now to say ‘the world of work is changing’.
The Payroll Officer’s Guide to Compliant, Global Employee Classification by Region
Savvy payroll officers know that their role in overseas expansion can go beyond simply accurately paying new overseas talent or employees relocated to new regions with new regulations to meet.
How to Land & Expand Business Overseas (without New Offices)
Expanding business overseas sounds like an agenda point in the meeting minutes of companies with deep pockets and a diverse management team able to make it happen.
5 HR Compliance Challenges for Hiring In the EU
Expanding business into the EU? You’re surely looking forward to potential riches in a 500+ million consumer market with low trade barriers and attractive business costs.
From ‘WFH’ to ‘WT*?’ The Great Resignation and Global Employment
When you see the word ‘great’ in front of something, it’s a coin toss whether or not the thing in question is actually ‘great!’ – great, or ‘oh dear’ – great.
With ‘The Great Resignation’ let’s just say nobody’s reaching for the party poppers.