Employ anyone, anywhere...
The employment platform for your international team.
Compliantly employ your remote people, and get set up to handle payroll & tax filings, in minutes.
Currently supporting locally compliant employment, through Boundless-owned entities, in:
🇦🇺 🇩🇰 🇪🇪 🇩🇪 🇮🇪 🇳🇱 🇳🇿 🇵🇹 🇸🇬 🇬🇧 & more soonWhy Boundless?
We take the hard work out of remote people ops.
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Compliant Employment
We employ your workers on your behalf, with locally compliant dual-language employment agreements.
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Accurate Payroll
Easily review and approve payroll. We handle the processing, and take care of all local tax filings.
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Automated Payments
A single payment in your local currency, covers employees and tax authorities in their local currencies.
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Quick & Easy
Get set up to employ people in a new country in minutes. One easy-to-use platform handles everything.
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Expert Support
Quickly resolve local payroll and support issues. Employee self-serve means fewer queries for your HR & finance teams.
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Secure
Rest assured that sensitive payroll and employment information is transmitted and stored securely.
Expert Knowledge
The platform
Boundless is built by people ops professionals...
...for people ops professionals
Employ your remote team in minutes, not months.
Reduce the time and effort involved in compliant international employment, and focus on creating a great employee experience.
Stability & security
for your team.
Your international workers get full employment rights, and the benefit of local employment taxes. Easily convert your international contractors to compliant employees.
Run multi-country payroll for your international employees.
Secure international payroll and compliant local tax filings. Boundless ensures that employees and local tax authorities are paid the right amount, on time, every time.
How it works
Boundless is an employer of record.
That means we take care of remote employment
operations so you don't have to.
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Tell us who you want to employ, where they are, and basic terms of their employment.
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You focus on building a great team, growing a successful business, and serving happy customers.
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We take care of the rest: processing payroll, filing taxes, paying salaries, and managing HR compliance.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What is Boundless and how does it work?
Boundless makes it easy for companies to grow their internationally remote team. We do this by employing people on your behalf, being the local “employer of record” for the individual.
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What does “Employer of Record” mean?
It means that Boundless is the legal employer of the individual, as far as their government, tax, and employment authorities are concerned.
We are responsible for:
- ensuring their employment is compliant with local employment laws
- processing local payroll
- filing employment related tax returns
- issuing payslips to the employee
- distributing salary payments
- payments to the local tax authorities
Our customers are responsible for:
- sourcing and recruiting their own workers
- managing the employee’s day-to-day work load
- contributing to the personal / professional development of the employee through their work
- following any guidance we give on employment and HR best practices or legal obligations in the employee’s home country
- ensuring that payroll bills relating to their team are paid to Boundless before the cut-off point in each pay cycle
Boundless is a legal employer of record for growing companies with international workers, in a number of countries.
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What are the advantages of using Boundless to employ my internationally remote team?
- To be compliant. Be assured that you are legally employing your team in a way that benefits them, without the monthly administrative burden.
- To access local knowledge. We have the local expertise to help you quickly employ your internationally remote team in a way that's compliant within their local jurisdiction.
- To avoid penalties. Governments are starting to enforce compliance laws that carry penalties for misclassification of employees.
- To scale your team, faster. You can take full advantage of being able to hire from a global talent pool, without new hires needing to wait for you to become compliant on your own.
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Does Boundless have its own corporate and employment infrastructure?
Yes. We 100% own the legal entities through which your team is employed, for each country we support. We do not use thrid party entities or services to employ people.
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How does invoicing and billing work?
Each pay period, after you make any neccesary adjustments and processing is completed, we issue you with an invoice bill, for one amount, in your home currency. A full breakdown of the payrol cost is available, including our fee of 8%. You pay us, we pay your team in their currency, file and pay their taxes compliantly in their home country.
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What countries do you currently support?
Boundless can support you if you have people you wish to compliantly employ in:
- Australia 🇦🇺
- Denmark 🇩🇰
- Estonia 🇪🇪
- Germany 🇩🇪
- Ireland 🇮🇪
- Portugal 🇵🇹
- Netherlands 🇳🇱
- New Zealand 🇳🇿
- Singapore 🇸🇬
- United Kingdom 🇬🇧
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What countries do you plan on supporting and when will support be available?
Being able to support employment of people in these countries requires us to establish corporate infrastructure and develop systems compatible with local laws, which can take time. See our list of upcoming countries here.
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About us
People Ops and Product experts
We are experienced people ops professionals, product & software developers, united in our mission to make it painless to employ people internationally.
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Dee Coakley
Co-Founder & CEO
"I've overseen payroll in multiple countries, and found the experience to be painful, slow and expensive. A business operations nightmare!"
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Emily Castles
Co-Founder & CTO
I've worked on distributed teams for my entire career; the operational challenges of hiring internationally are a real barrier to growing talented and happy teams.
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Eamon Leonard
Co-Founder & CPO
"I’ve found the lack of options and transparency around employing people in other countries to be a blocker to strategic growth."
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Marco Pasqualin
Global Payroll Manager
"Payroll is not just about paying people every month but is about providing a great employee experience and a hassle free and fully compliant service to the customer."
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Stefania Chiorboli
Global HR Manager
"While supporting remote companies with team members all over the globe, I've faced the legal grey area, and the inherent inequalities that come with remote work. Let's fix this."
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Laure Martin
Global Ops Manager
"I've found the lack of compliance regarding international staff compensation very stressful as an operations person, but also very unfair as a foreign contractor myself."
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Brendan Hastings
Product Design Lead
"I want to help people work and live the way they choose. By helping companies to make borderless remote work a no-brainer, that world is possible for more people."
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Piotr Wodz
Software Engineer
"I believe in people and that is why I am here. It is high time to help remote employees to be treated equally. Let’s automate it together!"
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Matthew Ager
Software Engineer
"Having grown through every experience collaborating with people across the globe, I want to help remove barriers so that everyone can enjoy a more distributed way of working."
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Vivian Morgado
Operations Researcher
"As a remote worker, I found the burden of being an independent contractor to be frustrating, which is why I'm dedicated to finding ways to solve this problem."
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Irina Dzhambazova
Head of Content
"Having worked as a remote human for a large part of my career, I want to help distributed and co-located companies be better at remote work through educational, practical and human stories."