When Cat Noone, CEO of accessibility software company Stark, approached Boundless founder Dee Coakley to collaborate on a guide to ‘Disability at Work’ in Ireland, it sparked a broader conversation about the state of employment regulations and supports for disabled people in the age of global, remote-based working. In this post, Dee and Cat discuss […]

As HR and People teams sit down for their end of year meetings and planning sessions, they’ll be reflecting on another confusing and disrupted year. Lockdowns have given way to partial normality, only for further pandemic storm clouds to return in the past few months. Two years on, we are entering 2022 with uncertainty still […]

The way we work is changing more rapidly than ever. As 2021 draws to an end, we thought we’d take the opportunity to reflect on the moments that have had the greatest bearing on the global employment.

All over the world, Covid-19 has led to what's been dubbed the Great Resignation: millions of people, from frontline workers to senior executives, voluntarily calling time on their jobs. Is location-independent work the antidote?

For years employees have been clamouring for more opportunities to work from home; to work overseas; to live a more flexible and balanced life. However, when it comes to being legally employed to do so, things become a lot trickier.

Considering employing someone in the Philippines? To do that compliantly, an employer has a lot of obligations they have to fulfil. One comprehensive and important topic is the set of local employee rights a worker residing in the Philippines is entitled to. Below is a guide to employee rights in Philippines to help you understand […]

As the world slowly tries to find its footing in this latest chapter of the COVID-19 story, making sense of how all that impacts the world of work feels almost impossible. In times like these, law can be a guiding light.

Considering employing someone in Lithuania? To do that compliantly, an employer has a lot of obligations they have to fulfil. One comprehensive and important topic is the set of local employee rights a worker residing in Lithuania is entitled to. Below is a guide to employee rights in Lithuania to help you understand what you […]

Considering employing someone in Brazil? To do that compliantly, an employer has a lot of obligations they have to fulfil. One comprehensive and important topic is the set of local employee rights a worker residing in Brazil is entitled to. Below is a guide to employee rights in Brazil to help you understand what you […]

Considering employing someone in Canada? To do that compliantly, an employer has a lot of obligations they have to fulfil. One comprehensive and important topic is the set of local employee rights a worker residing in Canada is entitled to. What makes things a little more complex in Canada is that those rights differ among […]

Considering employing someone in Croatia? To do that compliantly, an employer has a lot of obligations they have to fulfil. One comprehensive and important topic is the set of local employee rights a worker residing in Croatia is entitled to. Below is a guide to employee rights in Croatia to help you understand what you […]

If you have been tasked with finding a way to employ your distributed employees, you probably have already come across the Employer of Record model. But here is a refresher. Many offerings make a very similar proposition — “use [insert provider name] to employ and pay your distributed workers without worrying about compliance”. How are […]

Considering employing someone in New Zealand? To do that compliantly, an employer has a lot of obligations they have to fulfil. One comprehensive and important topic is the set of local employee rights a worker residing in New Zealand is entitled to. Below is a guide to employee rights in New Zealand to help you […]

It’s been a few months since the UK officially exited the EU. While many aspects of the Brexit deal are better understood now, we have a way to go to grasp the details thoroughly. One crucial topic to many companies with UK-based employees or those employing UK nationals abroad is how Brexit impacts employment.  The […]

Considering employing someone in France? To do that compliantly, an employer has a lot of obligations they have to fulfil. One comprehensive and important topic is the set of local employee rights a remote worker in France is entitled to. Below is a guide to employee rights in France to help you understand what you […]

What a difference 12 months can make! Last year, we set off to write a ten-point guide on being a remote compliant company and couldn’t even imagine just how key distributed work compliance was about to become. Many workers were sent home in March 2020, and the workplace as we know it has changed forever. […]

Considering employing someone in Poland? To do that compliantly, an employer has a lot of obligations they have to fulfil. One comprehensive and important topic is the set of local employee rights a remote worker in Poland is entitled to. Below is a guide to employee rights in Poland to help you understand what you […]

My first job working remotely was a case of fortuitousness - I had brunch with someone visiting town and casually mentioned I was looking into making better use of my journalism degree. The day after, my brunch date ended up offering me a job for their US-based company. I didn't have to move for the […]

Considering employing someone in Australia? To do that compliantly, an employer has a lot of obligations they have to fulfil. One comprehensive and important topic is the set of local employee rights a remote worker in Australia is entitled to, especially if they fall under what are called Modern Awards. Below is a guide to […]

Considering employing someone in The Netherlands? To do that compliantly, an employer has a lot of obligations they have to fulfil. One comprehensive and important topic is the set of local employee rights a remote worker in The Netherlands is entitled to.  Below is a guide to employee rights in The Netherlands to help you […]

Update: Since publication, we have put all three articles on UK benefits in a downloadable ebook and have added the full stories of four companies we spoke to about how they approach their benefits program. Grab it here. Building a UK employee benefits package from scratch can feel quite daunting. As we outlined in the […]