Remote.com

Remote was founded in 2019 by Job van der Voort and Marcelo Lebre — both veterans of GitLab, itself a fully distributed company — with a clear mission: make it possible for any company to hire anyone, anywhere in the world, without the legal and administrative complexity that global employment typically requires. Remote operates as an Employer of Record in over 180 countries, managing employment contracts, payroll, taxes, and benefits in each jurisdiction while allowing the hiring company to focus on the work itself rather than the compliance overhead. The company's own fully remote structure gives it genuine operational familiarity with the problems it is solving.

Remote's platform handles the end-to-end global employment workflow: generating locally compliant employment contracts, collecting employee personal and tax information during onboarding, processing monthly payroll in local currency with correct tax withholding and social contributions, managing statutory benefits and expense reimbursement, and handling offboarding. The platform also offers contractor management for companies that prefer to engage workers as independent contractors rather than employees, with country-specific compliance guidance on misclassification risk. Remote's API allows HR platforms like Greenhouse, Lever, and BambooHR to integrate hiring workflows directly with Remote's employment infrastructure.

Remote platform outages affect the globally distributed teams whose employment operations run through it. The most critical failure mode is a payroll processing disruption close to a monthly run — employees in Remote's employer-of-record structure receive salaries processed through Remote, and a failure to complete a payroll run on schedule means delayed wages for employees who may be in countries without strong social safety nets. Contract generation failures prevent new employee onboarding from proceeding. The expense reimbursement submission portal becomes unavailable, delaying repayment for employees who have fronted company expenses. Integration APIs returning errors break the ATS-to-HR workflows that companies use to trigger Remote onboarding automatically upon offer acceptance.

Outage.gg tracks Remote platform status using real-time community reports from HR teams and People operations professionals. If Remote is down, payroll processing is failing, or onboarding is unavailable, the live status page shows current impact.