If the idea of managing remote teams sets your heart at a cracking pace, then you’re not the only one. Operating businesses internationally and managing remote teams can seem like a daunting exercise, particularly if you don’t have much knowledge of these local markets is limited.

With the world becoming more globalised by the day, businesses simply can’t ignore the lucrative benefits of expanding overseas. But, with ever-changing economies, differing state and federal laws, language barriers and cultural differences, not having the support of a team on the ground in each country can be troublesome, to say the very least.

Managing remote teams can make you feel like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders – literally! But, if a business were to eliminate much of the administrative muscle work that goes into payroll and HR, they could significantly minimise the burdens of ballooned overheads and drained resources.

Introducing Professional Employment Organisations (PEOs).

But by partnering with Australia PEO for remote teams, you could benefit from our HR experts on the ground here in Australia, so that you can concentrate on the many other factors that go into making your expansion in Australia successful and scalable.

A PEO is a standalone agency that businesses partner with to allow them to hire staff in a country without having set up a local entity in the country to do so. A co-employment partnership means we (Australia PEO) will take on the responsibility of payroll, visa and immigration, compliance and onboarding for your company as a “co-employer” of your teams in Australia. At the same time, you manage the day-to-day happenings of your teams. For more information on what a PEO for remote teams can mean for you, see an earlier blog here.

How will working with Australia PEO help you manage remote teams?

• Helping to source and onboard the best possible talent

Having the best people on your teams will always be a crucial cog in the wheel for a business to succeed, but even more so for remote teams.

When you’re setting up shop in Australia, one of the biggest challenges you’ll face is finding and recruiting top talent, particularly when you’re up against much larger and well-established competitors. But, when you partner with Australia PEO, we can point you in the right direction for potential avenues for recruitment based off of the local knowledge that we have.

Once you’ve secured the right person for your open roles, we’ll onboard them efficiently and compliantly, so they can be up a running within the company in a couple of days.

• Compliance consulting

When a business grows so too will its footprint and ultimately, its compliance-related responsibilities. Whether it be staying on top of the different states’ employment laws or trying to manage constant regulatory changes, growing your business overseas can chew up a lot of your resources very quickly, taking you away from crucial activities that support your business’s growth.

An international company can’t be expected to stay on top of the intricate employment laws in a foreign country. Which is why working with Australia PEO offers the compliance support that we do. We’re well-versed with not only relevant employment laws in Australia but also the regulatory changes from state-to-state.

• Onboarding

When you’re developing teams internationally, onboarding can become a challenge. International companies need all the help they can get to onboard new members of their staff.

Working with Australia PEO means you’ll be working with a dedicated team of onboarding managers in Australia who will get your new staff members fully equipped for the job and complete all relevant documents compliantly, so your remote teams can be up and running in a matter of hours. What this means for you is that your internal departments won’t be scrambling to tick every HR and compliance box from the other side of the world.

• Access to expertise

Particularly when much of your finances are dedicated to growing business in Australia, building a team of highly experienced HR and tax experts can be out of reach.

When you work with Australia PEO, you work with our HR experts who have decades of experience in not only the Australian market but also in local and federal employment law. We’d become your very own Australian business consultants with in-depth knowledge of compliance, workers’ compensation, visa and immigration and tax.

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