We ran the same eight-country hiring scenario through ten multi-country payroll platforms, and what separated them was not the coverage map. It was who actually runs the local payroll: some own every legal entity, others quietly route your pay runs through third-party firms you never meet. That one choice decides where a filing error gets fixed.
Written by Javier Rivero
Running payroll across borders for a distributed workforce means navigating local tax codes, statutory benefits, and employment laws that shift with every country you add to the headcount.
Written by Giovanna Zolfi
European employment law is not one system - it is 30 separate systems that happen to share a continent, and the EOR platforms our team tested varied wildly in how well they handle that fragmentation.
Written by Giovanna Zolfi
After researching and testing 12 Employer of Record platforms, the single biggest variable was not price or country coverage - it was whether the provider owns its local legal entities or outsources to third-party partners.
Written by Alexandra Rashed