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What is the difference of Remote vs Deel in 2022

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May 17 - 6 min read

May 2, 2022

When considering PEO (Professional Employer Organization), you might already know companies like GoGlobal or ADP TotalSource. So at first let’s understand some basics:

Why do you need a PEO? PEOs typically help with:

  • Payroll and tax filing: PEOs process payroll, and pay local, state, and federal employment taxes. Many also integrate payroll with time and attendance, which helps reduce duplicate data entries and errors.
  • Benefits administration: A co-employment arrangement often comes with access to high-quality, cost-effective health insurance, as well as dental care, retirement benefits, and other employee perks. The PEO will usually handle the employee enrollment for these benefits and process claims for you.
  • Compliance: PEOs typically have compliance experts who can help you protect your business from fines and penalties. Their expertise may include payroll tax law and reporting requirements, unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation, hiring, and HR compliance.
  • Risk and safety: In addition to workers’ compensation insurance, PEOs sometimes provide safety audits and training programs to help you limit claims.
  • Human resource support: A PEO has HR professionals who provide HR services and support. If you already have an in-house HR person or team, the PEO partners with them to get jobs done.
  • Talent management: Some PEOs offer end-to-end talent services, like recruiting and strategic hiring, employee training and engagement, and performance management.


Sounds a lot like your HR or your People Ops team? Yes, except it will be costly to hire an HR in every country you want to hire Employees.

So what’s the big deal about the new HR startups like Remote and Deel? Both offer similar PEO services but most importantly, they make them easy to use. The onboarding for new-hire is just a matter of a few minutes where you can fill in basic information, and the new hire gets an email to fill in the basic profile information. The value-added of easy onboarding and off-boarding makes a big difference when startups are competing talents and releasing new features. They no longer have to worry about unnecessary communication. It works just like onboarding a new employee in your own country. PEO will take care the rest for you. Remote and Deep both also offer other payment choices like Wise.com or Payoneer to employees than a typical international wire. That’s why Remote and Deel makes remote hirings so easy to get started.

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