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GoGlobal is a Global EOR that supports compliant hiring in over 100 countries. It also provides customized services to ensure workforce compliance during international mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs.
Pros
- Compliance support for international business transactions
- In-Country HR teams
Cons
- No international contractor support
- No publicly available pricing
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Global Employer Of Record (EOR) services allow companies to compliantly hire employees around the world without establishing local legal entities. Many Global EORs focus on providing simple services for companies building distributed teams of knowledge workers. GoGlobal can meet these needs, but it also provides more specialized services aimed at helping companies test new international markets, and manage compliance through international mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs.
As a leading Employer of Record, GoGlobal could be just the support your business needs to quickly and cost-effectively hire employees overseas.
Overview
GoGlobal is a relatively new Global EOR, established in 2018. It has already expanded its services to over 100 countries, and employs over 2500 people through its services. GoGlobal is an employee-owned partnership, itself composed of remote team members. Perhaps because of this, it focuses on providing a “people-first global human resources” service that focuses on human contact and knowledge, enabled by technology.
Key Features
1. Employer of Record (EOR)
As a Global EOR, GoGlobal can hire and administer employees compliantly in over 100 countries. Additionally, it can help clients recruit the right talent globally or in their chosen regions, and help provide equipment to international employees.
GoGlobal hires in-country HR teams in all countries of operations. These specialists are able to work directly with clients’ HR and management in order to provide local knowledge and skills available whenever necessary.
Each client is matched with a dedicated account manager, who can be contacted directly through the platform. Account managers at GoGlobal have in-depth knowledge of local benefits options, tax and labor regulations, and compliance obligations.
2. Payroll
International payroll can be reviewed and approved within a few seconds via the BlueOcean platform. Salaries and costs associated with each international employee may be reviewed and paid through a single monthly service fee. Employee pay is administered through direct deposit, in local currencies by GoGlobal.
3. HR
The GoGlobal teams manage statutory benefits administration, and advise businesses on which customary plans are the best for attracting top talent.
While many Global EORs offer streamlined services that are largely limited to compliant hiring and payroll, Go Global helps businesses find the best talent as well. A network of international recruitment partners is available, so business owners do not have to search for new talent alone.
GoGlobals local HR teams provide a high degree of support for both clients and their employees. Go Global in-country teams are available 24/7 to support both employees and employers.
In order to help businesses attract top talent, GoGlobal can help create equity share plans for international employees. The HR teams at GoGlobal consult with employers on the tax and legal issues related to potential plans such as Employee Share Purchase Plans, Restricted Share Units, Stock Options, and phantom plans, and help to craft a custom equity share offer.
4. Compliance
GoGlobal manages all employee contracts, tax forms, and other paperwork required for compliance. The platform also notifies business owners of any changes to local regulations that may affect their employees. GoGlobal also offers international background checks, a feature not found in many other Global EOR services.
Many global EORs focus on compliantly hiring remote international employees; GoGlobal offers additional, more specialized services by ensuring compliant workforce transitions in international mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs.
Additionally, GoGlobal is ISO 27001 certified, showing that it meets a high degree of information security standards.
5. Platform
Business owners administer their international teams through the BlueOcean platform, developed by GoGlobal. This unique PEO platform is designed for fast payroll approval and processing and can be customized to meet clients’ needs and workflows. The platform also stores employee records securely on its own cloud.
The platform is unique in providing information via an online database, access to account managers, and AI assistants. Like many Global EORs, GoGlobal provides a wealth of information for businesses who wish to educate themselves on local practices and regulations; it also provides in-country account managers who can answer complex questions, help employees directly and guide HR strategy. Additionally, it offers ChatGoGlobal, an AI-powered chatbot that can help answer compliance and HR questions. For many, this feature will neatly fill the gap between complex, strategy-related issues that require personal communication, and general knowledge research. The AI provides reliable answers to questions such as “How long can a probation period last”, “What are the components of an employment contract”, or “What are standard working hours” for specific national jurisdictions. Having this service on hand to answer specific questions at any time will no doubt be time-saving and headache-reducing for many international employers.
Go Global values human interaction, and does not try to reduce interaction between employees and employers with the HR platform; instead, the system is designed to handle all back office administration, while keeping communication “face-to-face”.
GoGlobal Pricing
Pricing is provided by direct request only.
GoGlobal Reviews and Recognition
Silver Award for ‘Best Employer of Record’ from HRM Asia Readers’ Choice 2020
Listed among the ‘Top 100 Ventures In Japan’ by Toyo Keizai Magazine.
First foreign-controlled EOR to acquire a Chinese dispatch license, allowing compliant employment throughout the country.
Pros and Cons
Pros
Benefits of engaging GoGlobal as an international EOR include:
- Customized compliance assurance during complex international mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, and carve-outs
- Payments may be made in many international currencies
- In-country HR teams provide a human link between international employees and the home office HR
- Recruitment services assist international expansion and remote team building.
Cons
Potential downsides of GoGlobal solutions include:
- No international contractor support.
- Pricing is available by request only.
Unique Selling Point
GoGlobal can tailor its services to businesses wishing to test new international markets. The “old way” of bringing a product to new markets typically involved costly and time-consuming local entity setup and relocating expat employees. While this may be a necessary step eventually, GoGlobal can help businesses dip their toe into new markets with minimal time and cost. Its recruitment services can help companies build a small team specializing in the skills needed to test the business model in that region. The local team can then be expanded, changed, and grown as management obtains more knowledge and experience in the market.
GoGlobal also provides services aimed at assisting international business transactions, something not offered by many competitors. During acquisitions, mergers, or IPOs, regulators will perform extensive due diligence on the company’s operations, including employee classification; a misclassified employee discovered during a corporate transaction could result in steep fines, or suspend the transaction. Companies can avoid these issues with a custom EOR solution before, during, and after the transaction. When international teams are picked up following a merger or acquisition, GoGlobal EOR solutions can ensure that they continue to be paid compliantly, retain or upgrade their benefits, and are brought into the HR management system used by the home office.
How can GoGlobal help with international mergers, acquisitions, and carve-outs?
RemotePad Score for GoGlobal
9.6/10 Our expert score for GoGlobal
Our team came to this score by considering the following components in the following weightings:
| Employer of Record features | 25% |
| Payroll features | 10% |
| HR features | 10% |
| Compliance features | 10% |
| Platform features | 10% |
| Pricing | 20% |
| User reviews | 15% |
For each component, GoGlobal received the following score:
| Employer of Record features | 23/25 |
| Payroll features | 9/10 |
| HR features | 10/10 |
| Compliance features | 9/10 |
| Platform features | 10/10 |
| Pricing | 16/20 |
| User reviews | 11/15 |
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GoGlobal - Our Take
There are many Global EORs offering online portals with simple onboarding and payroll workflows. If this is all your business needs, it is worth scheduling a consultation and software demo with GoGlobal to see how it stacks up against the competition based on your business’s unique needs.
If it is important to you that global employees are served by an in-country HR professional, who also works directly with the home office HR team, GoGlobal’s “people-first” approach will make it stand out among the competition.
If you need a Global EOR specifically to handle compliance while testing new markets, purchasing local entities, bringing an international company public, or merging with another international firm, GoGlobal may be the perfect partner.
FAQ
GoGlobal is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
GoGlobal owns subsidiary entities around the world and works with partners to cover additional regions. It supports clients and employees in most global currencies.
As a privately-held company there is no public information available on this matter.
As a privately-held company, GoGlobal does not reveal its revenue or profit figures.
