Excellent communication is at the heart of making remote work, work. With the change from co-location to a remote setting, the goals that you have, the deliverables that you're trying to reach and follow through on are not changing. What mainly changes is how you communicate.

When you work from the office, a lot of the things you do during the day come automatically to you. As you move to a remote way of work, you will have to evaluate the importance of each thing you and your team do and cut out the fluff.

While the rise of mature tooling and services have enabled companies to more easily collaborate and create value with distributed teams than ever before, a legal and compliant remote work setup needs much more than great communication tools. We have already shared what are some of the employment challenges with remote workers and why hiring them as independent contractors is a bad idea in the long term. The only viable long term solution is legally employing them and establishing international payroll processes. In this post, we offer an 8-step “Do-It-Yourself” guide to setting up international payroll operations for your company.

We have spent the last few weeks, covering in detail the risks that companies, distributed or not, run by working with independent contractors long term. With repercussions for everyone involved, we hope this has given you some food for thought. If any of it applies to you, in this post, we would like to give you five clear reasons why you should be a compliant remote employer.

Irrespective of where in the world it's done, payroll is the process and system by which a company pays its employees, pay period in and pay period out. It involves keeping employee financial records, calculating their paycheck taking wages, taxes, tax credits, allowances, and benefits-in-kind into consideration, and issuing those paychecks. Regardless of where the company or its employees are based, every employee must receive the accurate pay (and payslip) with all withholdings and deductions submitted to the local tax authorities. Here is what you need to understand about international payroll

Working as independent contractors can leave people feeling like second class citizens in comparison to their properly employed counterparts. Still, it has to happen in a compliant and legal way, for the benefit of all.

Albeit a common practice when working with remote workers, hiring them as independent contractors can have financial, strategic, reputational and ethical repercussions.

As many companies opt to operate remotely, they will need to comply with many rules and regulations. A 10-step guide how to be a compliant remote company.

Every company has their story of how they became remote and distributed. At my last company, we became a distributed organisation organically, rather than proactively.  From the founding of the company, we had seen ourselves as an Irish company, with both feet firmly set on Irish soil. We had a great office at a wonderful […]

So, hello! We’re Boundless, and we make it easy to employ anyone, anywhere! The last few years have seen a rise in both people working in remote locations, and tools/services helping them to do so. What was once a strategic decision to expand internationally, driven by market forces, and only available to companies at scale and with deep […]