Whether we call it remote working, work from anywhere, or more simply, work from home, the move away from the office as the primary place for labour is here to stay. For that reason, it’s more important than ever to focus on making it an effective and streamlined model of working.  We have written about […]

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. As we pointed out in the first part of this guide to benefits in the UK, the […]

Compliantly employing someone comes with a lot of obligations and topics you have to be on top of. When you are doing that in a country foreign to you, everything will be brand new and you will have a lot of learning to do. One comprehensive and important topic is the set of local employee […]

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. A constant question on every employer’s mind is “What benefits should I be offering to attract and […]

The ability to work from home, wherever in the world this may be, is here to stay. In some small way, it's the silver lining to a difficult pandemic, which forced people and companies around the world to experiment with a form of work that may have felt uncomfortable, or not feasible previously. And now […]

When you need to legally and compliantly employ an internationally remote worker, one of the first things you have to come to terms with are the local employee rights. Below is a guide to the employee rights in Portugal.

The amount of time it takes to successfully onboard a remote employee depends on the size and speed the company is moving. For larger companies, the onboarding could last up to three months, while at smaller ones, it could be a week to a month.

There are many reasons knowledge workers find themselves in a state of burnout. Fundamentally the problem with all of them is that they diminish the feeling of being 'allowed' to take time off or to disconnect properly. This is where intervention is required.

Today we are very excited to announce that we are creating a dedicated space for this community to continue to grow, share and learn from each other.

There are many reasons why a company may consider outsourcing payroll operations. Deciding whether it makes sense in the first place and what type of setup and partner are right for the situation requires the evaluation of a lot of pros and cons. Throughout my career, I have had to make these payroll outsourcing decisions […]

When the Covid19 pandemic hit us, most knowledge workers became suddenly remote. Whether they liked it or not, they had to stay home and set up some sort of a functioning space where they could do as much uninterrupted work as humanly possible, given the circumstances.  I was no different. I swapped my 15-minute cycle […]

A guide to employee rights in the UK, which gives an overview of all the rights employees have, including general rights, protections, benefits and job security. It's an employer's responsibility to adhere to them, in order to be compliant.

Five years on since I transitioned to People Ops, here is what I have learned about navigating People Ops in remote companies and making sure people are their best at work.

The Right to Disconnect in France was introduced in 2016 as part of a much bigger update on French employment law that aimed to bring much more flexibility, and make it more fit for purpose in an increasingly digital world.

When an employer decides to legally and compliantly employ an internationally remote employee, one of the first things they need to come to terms with are the employee rights of their country. Below is a guide to employee rights in Ireland. (We have developed similar guides for Australia, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, France, the UK, Portugal, Poland, Germany, The Netherlands, Lithuania, and […]

If leaders do not make their companies fit for a world where a remote and distributed way of work is far more prevalent, they risk becoming less competitive employers. A change in how we operate is needed, which goes beyond opening up the recruitment pool and advertising remote-friendly jobs.

An extensive guide on how benefits in kind tax works around the world, when employees are exempted from it, how companies can offset it, and how to file benefit in kind taxes accurately for your employees.

Misalignment is one of the biggest sources of conflict for companies remote or not. Without proper training or adjustment on how to work and communicate remotely, it's a recipe for an alignment disaster.

A benefit in kind is any non-cash benefit of monetary value that an employer provides to employees. Unlike statutory benefits, which are mandated by the government, benefits in kind are something that a company offers at its own will.

In this exclusive interview for the Boundless blog, John Riordan, Director of Support, Ireland at Shopify shares what he has learned about succeeding as a remote company, what keeps a remote workforce happy and engaged, and how to scale it.

Nowadays, nothing is normal, which means that any work-life troubles are only a small puzzle of a very complex and challenging situation. In this unchartered territory, which none of us know how to navigate, we all need to support and be there for each other.