The hiring process

The process is a multi-stage process that begins with reviewing application materials, selecting potential candidates to interview, and choosing an ideal candidate for a position.

In simple steps,

1. Review of the application letters from a specific talent pool
2. Shortlisting of qualified candidates
3. The interview process may involve face-to-face interviews, video interviews through video calls, and the use of Zoom calls.
4. Choosing the ideal person for the position
5. Conducting reference checks
6. Sending an offer letter
7. And finally, the onboarding process of the new employee.

Consider the same process if an employer was looking to hire remote employees in Africa while in the States, Europe, or across the globe.

Hiring remote workers then become more challenging, specifically in the following areas:

1. The high cost of sending an expert overseas

Research has shown that sending your expert overseas will cost you twice or thrice the price of hiring local remote workers. What does it cost you? You might ask. A few are migration requirements, equalizations, allowances, and an applicant tracking system. Instead, why not have someone you trust hire and manage local expatriates?

2. High burnout rate in remote hiring

Assuming that you manage the overhead costs and send some of your experts overseas, productivity from employees is critical at the end of the day. Over time, your team members with extremely demanding jobs will express a high burnout rate because of the following. The challenge of cultural fit, language barriers, stress, and homesickness. The experts will lack a work-life balance, teamwork, and difficulty in team communication. All of this will, in turn, decrease the productivity of your employees. Why not have local employees who will not face the same challenges and at the same time maintain or even boost productivity?

3. Legal risks

Compliance is essential when running a business, locally or hiring remote teams. You expose your business to more legal risks by exporting an expert than hiring a local. The risks involved include being fined due to immigration requirements, permit obligations, and non-compliance penalties. Continuing to work without adherence to legal requirements may lead to imprisonment.

4. Local Entity Registration 

To increase your workspace through market expansion and promote remote-jobs, registering a business, especially in a foreign country, may take longer than expected and cost you a fortune. The process has more lengthy procedures, needs a lot of approval, and can sometimes be denied due to a strained management system. You could avoid all this if you did not have to set up a local entity that would otherwise interfere with your company culture in the first place. Using a software solution such as Workpay makes all of this possible by streamlining your business.

5. Global Payscale

Paying full-time employees, freelancers, and contractors worldwide are challenging for a particular business because of different currencies, time zones, tax compliance laws, and modes of payment used in other countries.

Why should you hire remote teams using a software solution? 

In recent years, software development and automation of manual processes have made remote hiring seamless. A company, therefore, does not need to scroll through social media sites such as LinkedIn in search of new hires.

An integrated software solution such as Workpay takes over this task management process, skimming through the remote candidates and coming up with a completely virtual team and incorporating a management system. Software use improves remote team management by streamlining workflow through remote work tools.

Conclusion 

Workpay is your non-entity global solution.

Our software lets you hire and pay independent contractors and full-time employees in countries where you currently do not have a workspace. We are not an HRIS or payroll solution in the traditional sense. We are a software solution integrated with a mobile app for easy and efficient global workforce engagement outside of your entities.

Suppose you are experiencing any friction in paying your internationally distributed teams or navigating foreign compliance. Get a solution from Workpay.