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Omnipresent made the world your hiring pool
A physicist and a former Special Forces officer built a business around the paperwork nobody wanted. Now part of Deel, Omnipresent shows what it takes to turn a remote hire into a legal employee.
Remote’s Cleanest Advantage Over Deel Is Disappearing
Remote built its pitch on owning the local entities that employ workers. Deel now says it has done the same at broader scale, turning a once-clean contrast into a country-by-country diligence exercise.
Pebl Wants Global Hiring to Feel Like Booking a Flight. The Hard Part Is Everything You Don't See.
Pebl sells a quick click into 185-plus labor markets. Behind it sits the decidedly unquick work of licenses, payroll rails, local benefits, immigration rules, and human judgment.
Multiplier
Multiplier is a global employment platform that lets companies hire, onboard, pay and manage full-time employees and contractors in 150+ countries without setting up local entities. Founded in 2020 in Singapore, it bundles Employer of Record (EOR), Contractor of Record, global payroll, PEO and HRIS tooling into one dashboard, handling local labor contracts, tax, benefits and compliance so distributed teams can operate legally across borders.
Atlas HXM
Atlas HXM is a Chicago-based Human Experience Management platform and the original direct Employer of Record (EOR), letting companies hire, pay, and support talent in 160+ countries without setting up local entities. By owning and operating its own legal entities worldwide, Atlas handles payroll, benefits, compliance, and immigration through a single technology platform, onboarding international employees in as little as two weeks.
Jim McCoy
Jim McCoy is the CEO of Atlas HXM, the company that pioneered the direct Employer of Record model for hiring across 160-plus countries. He took the top job in December 2023 after 14 years at ManpowerGroup, where he scaled the world's largest recruitment process outsourcing business into 56 countries and managed a quarter-million placements a year. He builds for scale while obsessing over the local user experience, borrows ideas from B2C playbooks for a B2B world, and frames the work as democratizing access to economic opportunity.
Deel
Deel is a global HR and payroll platform that lets companies hire, pay, and manage workers in 150+ countries, handling contracts, compliance, taxes, benefits, and IT - all in one place.
Nurasyl Serik
Nurasyl Serik is the co-founder and CEO of RemoFirst, a San Francisco-based Employer of Record (EOR) platform that enables companies to hire and manage full-time employees and contractors across 185+ countries. Born in Kazakhstan and educated in the UK, Serik bootstrapped RemoFirst to seven figures before raising $39.4M in venture funding, earning a Forbes 30 Under 30 spot in 2024 and a Fast Company Most Innovative Companies ranking in 2025. His platform undercuts legacy EOR providers with flat-rate pricing starting at $199/month, processing payroll across multiple currencies for clients including Microsoft, Mastercard, and the WHO.
RemoFirst
RemoFirst is an Employer of Record platform that lets companies hire, pay, and manage full-time employees and contractors in 185+ countries without setting up local entities. Founded in 2021 in San Francisco, it competes with Deel and Rippling by undercutting them on price - starting at $199 per employee per month - and handling payroll, taxes, benefits, equipment, and visas on its customers' behalf.