Hiring Global Employees with BambooHR Global Employment Powered by Remote

The article outlines the process of hiring and managing global employees using BambooHR Global Employment, powered by Remote. It emphasizes the simplicity of recruiting and onboarding international talent while managing payroll and compliance across over 90 countries. The article includes a comprehensive table of contents covering topics such as global hiring, employee and contract creation, onboarding tasks, and data synchronization between BambooHR and Remote. Steps for adding new employees and creating contracts are detailed, including filling out basic information, contract details, and benefits. It also addresses the integration of time-off policies and the ability to track onboarding tasks. The article serves as a guide for organizations looking to expand their workforce internationally without legal complexities.

Jul 8, 2026
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How can I easily hire and manage employees worldwide?

Purpose: To teach you how to utilize BambooHR Global Employment, powered by Remote, to hire and manage your employees worldwide.

Table of Contents

Hiring globally
- Home page
- People tab
New employee and contract creation
New hire packet
- Can I view the Remote onboarding tasks in BambooHR?
- Can I cancel EOR onboarding?
Hiring globally through the ATS
Employee record and data sync
- EOR employee creation
- Contract status
Time off integration

Global hiring does not have to be complex. With BambooHR Global Employment, powered by Remote, you can easily recruit, hire, and onboard international talent, and then manage payroll, benefits, and compliance across 90+ countries—all through a connected platform experience.

Our combined solution gives you the tools and support to confidently expand your team anywhere in the world, without setting up local entities or worrying about legal risks. Whether you are making your first global hire or scaling into new markets, BambooHR Global Employment removes the complexity so you can focus on growing your business with speed, confidence, and peace of mind.

If you have not finished setup and configuration for this integration, please visit this guide first for guidance on that process.

Hiring globally

Visit this guide to see a list of which tasks are handled in which system and who to contact for support.

You can go through the global hiring process anywhere you hire or add an employee in BambooHR.

Home page

Dashboard page with a dropdown under + New. Highlighted option: New Employee > Hire Globally.

To add a new global employee from Home, click +New > New Employee > Hire Globally. Then select Employee.

People tab

To add a new global employee from the People tab, click New Employee > Hire Globally. Then select Employee.

Global Employment settings page

To add a new global employee from the Global Employment section of Settings, navigate to Settings > Global Employment > +New Global Hire > Hire Globally. Then select Employee.

New employee and contract creation

From all three of the above options, clicking Hire Globally > Continue will initiate the new employee and contract creation flow.

Form titled Where will your new hire be working? Dropdown shows countries including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada. Canada is selected. Button: Start Contract. Selected country has an orange outline.

First, select the location where your new employee will be based and then click Start Contract, which will open the New Employee (Powered by Remote) form. You can hire in any Remote countries with Global Employment services.

If you select Germany or France, you will see a pop up informing you that onboarding in Germany and France is temporarily only available in Remote. Click Continue in Remote to be routed to Remote to complete onboarding.

Step 1: Basic Information

Form fields for employee’s basic info such as Name, Address, Email, Country. Button at bottom reads Create Employee & Continue, and one reads Cancel.

Fill out the provided form with the employee's basic information and click Create Employee & Continue.

You may see some differences on the form based on the country you have selected. If you need to change the country, click Change Country in the upper right corner of the form. Upon completing this step, the employee is created in both BambooHR and Remote.

Step 2: Contract Details

Contract form with fields for Contract Duration, Type of Employee, Hours per Week, Salary, Benefits, Equity, and Role Description. Buttons: Continue, Previous Step, and Save Draft. Required fields are marked with an asterisk.

In the Contract Details step, you will fill out country-specific fields related to the employment contract, such as the following:

Contract duration
Type of employee
Work hours per week
Probation period
Paid time off
Role description
Experience level
Annual gross salary
Signing bonus
Commission
Equity

Once you have entered all the information, click Continue. You can also go back to the previous step if needed or save a draft to finish later.

Step 3: Benefits

Benefits page lists insurance and coverage types with cost values. Options allow single or family coverage. Two scenarios: unlocked (editable) or locked (read-only). Buttons: Continue, Previous Step, Save Draft.

The Benefits step lists the benefits that are specific to the country where the employee is being hired. Benefits are included by benefit plan type and include a description and cost. (The currency displayed is your company's billing currency set in Remote.)

There are two scenarios for benefits:

Unlocked benefits: If the employee you are adding is your company's first hire in the specified country, you can select which benefits to offer and which to waive. You can also choose between single or family coverage for each benefit plan type.
Locked benefits: If your company already has employees in the specified country, the benefits are locked, and the new employee will receive the previously selected benefits. If this is the case, this will be a read-only page.

Click Continue to move on to Step 4.

Step 4: Review Contract

Summary screen titled New Employee (Powered by Remote) showing tabs for Basic Information and Contract, with options to edit. Buttons: Invite Employee, Previous Step, Save Draft.

This step gives you a chance to review the created contract. Carefully review the information, and if everything looks good, click Invite Employee to invite the employee to Remote.

Modal titled Remote Invite Sent. Text says we'll let you know when the employee signs their Global Employment Contract in Remote. You can start managing the employee's access and create a new hire packet which will be sent after the employee completes tasks in Remote. There is a timeline showing three steps: Contract invite sent, employee signs contract, and employee invited to BambooHR. Button: Manage BambooHR Access.

Clicking Invite Employee sends the EOR contract to the employee for them to sign.

If you previously received the Reserve Payment notice and have not completed that step, you will see a notice informing you that you will be able to invite the employee once you have completed the required payment in Remote.

Meanwhile, you can click Manage BambooHR Access to configure the employee's access to their BambooHR account.

You can either add the employee to a BambooHR access level or keep their access as "No Access" for now. Once you have selected an access option, click Save & Create New Hire Packet.

New hire packet

The new hire packet setup is similar to the setup you will experience when hiring an employee locally. However, you will skip the new employee information steps because you already provided that information when creating the contract for the global employee.

Click Save to save the new hire packet. The system can only send the new hire packet to EOR employees after the employee completes self-enrollment and signs their employment contract in Remote. Once the employee completes those steps, the new hire packet will be sent automatically.

After you click Save, you will be directed to the employee's Onboarding tab, where they will have the Onboarding Pending status. You can view the timeline to see where the employee is in the process and view or add any onboarding tasks.

Can I view the Remote onboarding tasks in BambooHR?

Yes! You can view the Remote onboarding tasks in BambooHR. You can access them through two places: the employee profile and the Global Employment page in Settings.

To access the Remote onboarding tasks through the employee profile, navigate to the employee's Onboarding tab and then click View Remote Onboarding Tasks.

To access them through Settings, navigate to Settings > Global Employment, hover over the employee you would like to view the tasks for, and click the three-dot menu to select View Onboarding Tasks.

Viewing the onboarding tasks from either location opens a modal. The Onboarding Tasks modal displays the main steps. Each step includes a current status, initiated date, and a list of substeps. Because EOR onboarding is different in every country, the steps may vary between employees. However, most employees will see the following five main steps:

Adding and inviting employee
Self enrollment
Global compliance checks
Employment agreement
Activating employee

The Account Owner, Full Admins, and custom access level users with access to manage EOR employees can view the Onboarding Tasks modal. Employees cannot view their own Remote onboarding tasks.

Tasks cannot be edited in this modal. It provides convenient access to track your employee's onboarding progress.

A progress summary at the top of the modal highlights the following:

The current onboarding step (including its position in the total number of steps)
Overall progress bar

Based on the steps completed and those remaining, you may see the following action in the modal to help move onboarding forward:

Open Draft: Allows you to continue an incomplete EOR contract when applicable
Reserve Payment Required indicator: Clearly signals when payment is blocking onboarding progress
Send Reminder: Enables you to re-invite employees who have not started self-enrollment
Cancel Onboarding: Provides a clear path to cancel onboarding if needed

Note: This modal is only available when an employee is in a Draft Created, Onboarding Pending, Reserve Payment Required, or Active status (with a future Remote Start Date). Once an employee has passed their hire date or completed offboarding, the information in the modal is no longer available.

Can I cancel EOR onboarding?

Yes, as long as the employee has not created their account yet. If they have already created their account you will need to work with Remote support to cancel their onboarding.

If the employee has not yet created their account, you can cancel the onboarding from two places in BambooHR. The first in in Settings under Global Employment. Hover over the employee's name and click the three dot menu. From here, click Cancel Onboarding.

The second option is from the three-dot menu on the employee's profile. Selec that menu then click Cancel Onboarding.

Once you have cancelled the onboarding, the employee’s EOR contract status is cleared, employee fields are unlocked, and the employee is unassigned from Remote EOR time off categories.

If you need to restart their onboarding, you can select Hire Through Remote in that same three-dot menu on their profile to re-initiate that process.

Hiring globally through the ATS

Please keep in mind that only the Account Owner, Full Admins, and those with the custom access to manage EOR contracts can hire globally. If you have anyone outside that access involved in hiring, they will not see the option to hire an employee globally.

Offer creation page showing template Employer of Record Offer.

When you are ready to send a candidate an offer letter, you will need to use the Employer of Record Offer template, as it is created by Remote to meet their criteria. Click Employer of Record Offer and then click Preview Offer & Send.

Offer template page with fields for Expiration Date, Start Date, Job Title, Salary, Bonus, Equity. An orange outline highlights the template selection. Offer Details are highlighted. Preview Offer & Send button is grayed out. Buttons available: Save Draft and Cancel.

Under the Offer Details section, enter other details for the job opening: Expiration Date, Start Date, Job Title, Annual Gross Salary, Sign-on Bonus, Eligible for Bonus, and Equity Compensation. Once you have entered all the required information, click Preview Offer & Send. From there, you will be able to review the offer letter and click Send Offer Letter to officially send the letter to the candidate.

The only piece you will be able to edit on the offer letter once you have sent it is the email address it is being sent to.

When you are ready to hire the candidate, navigate to their candidate profile and click on the dropdown menu below the rating. Here, select Hire Globally.

Banner stating “Employee got the job!” with options to close posting or proceed. Buttons: Cancel and Hire Globally.

Because you have already sent the employee the Remote offer letter, the system recognizes them as a global hire, so you will not see the option to hire them locally. Decide if you would like to close the job opening, and click Hire Globally to hire the candidate.

New Employee modal with a dropdown to select which country the employee will be working in.

Select the country the new employee will be based in and click Start Contract. This will put you into the same contract creation workflow as before.

Do you need to make a contract amendment or offboard an EOR employee? Visit this guide for more information on these processes.

Employee record and data sync

Data will sync in both directions between Remote and BambooHR, reducing manual data entry on your end and ensuring all employee information for EOR employees is consistent and accurate between the systems. Please note that not all information from BambooHR is synced to Remote because it is not all required. Read below to learn what data will be synced and how.

If you onboard an employee in Remote and the profile fails to sync to BambooHR due to a duplicate email address, BambooHR will automatically attempt to link to a current profile using the following logic:

If the Remote work email, personal email, and first name match to a BambooHR profile, the integration will automatically link the Remote profile to the existing BambooHR profile.
If the Remote work email or personal email match and full name or date of birth match, the integration will automatically link the Remote profile to the existing BambooHR profile.

EOR employee creation

When an EOR employee is added in BambooHR, an employee profile is automatically created in Remote. The opposite is also true; if you add an employee directly in Remote, BambooHR will also generate an employee profile. Essential information is also synced between the two systems. This includes the following:

Name
Work and home email addresses
Full home address details (street, city, state/province, country, zipcode)
Birthdate
Gender
Job title
Hire date
Initial employment status
Annual gross salary
Pay type (salary)
Paid per (year)
Remote Employee ID (see below for more information)
Ethnicity (only supported in the US)
Marital Status (Only Married or Single will sync. Any other option entered in Remote will sync as a blank field in BambooHR.)
Mobile Phone
National Identification Number (NIN)
Social Insurance Number (SIN) (supported in Austria, Canada, and Hungary)
Social Security Number (SSN)
Postal County (field specific to Lithuania)
Province (field specific to South Korea and Pakistan)
Second Surname (supported in Spain and will be combined into the Last Name field in BambooHR)

Any information added by the EOR employee through the self-enrollment step in Remote will sync to their BambooHR profile. Additionally, if an EOR employee's personal or administrative information is updated in Remote at any time, that change will be automatically updated in the corresponding fields in BambooHR.

Once EOR is installed, BambooHR will automatically create two new EOR-specific employment statuses: "Full Time (Hired by Remote)" and "Part Time (Hired by Remote)." These statuses cannot be edited or deleted from BambooHR. The system will automatically assign a status to an employee based on their contract type in Remote.

The Remote Employee ID is generated by Remote, used to identify an individual employee. It can also be found in the URL of the employee's People page in Remote's platform. Hover over Remote Employee ID to see the ID or click there to copy it to your clipboard.

Certain fields are locked in BambooHR. This means the admin or employee needs to log in to Remote to update this information. Depending on the information, this can be done by updating employee data, submitting a contract amendment, or submitting a termination request. There is a link to the employee's Remote profile on their BambooHR profile for easy access. Locked fields include the following:

Home Email
Work Email
Street 1 (Employee Address)
Street 2 (Employee Address)
City/Province (Employee Address)
State (Employee Address)
ZIP (Employee Address)
Country (Employee Address)*
Birthdate
Gender
Hire Date

*The system will automatically assign EOR employees to a company location in BambooHR during the sync process. When the sync is run, the system will look for an exact country match among existing company locations. If an exact match is found, the employee will be assigned to that location. If no exact match is found, the system will create a new remote location using the country’s name and assign the employee to that location. This sync only occurs once, and the created locations cannot be edited or deleted.

If you make changes to the Job Title, Employment Status, or Compensation tables, consider whether a contract amendment is needed to reflect those updates in the employee's Remote Employment Agreement.

The First Name, Middle Name, and Last Name fields are not locked, but do also not sync between the two systems as these fields do not always cleanly map over. If you change an employee's name in one system, be sure to update it in the other.

EOR employees will appear in the employee picker when you use the power edit feature.

If you select only EOR employees when power editing a locked field, you will see an error message informing you that you cannot update that information.
If you select a mix of EOR and non-EOR employees when power editing a locked field, you can proceed for the non-EOR employees, but the EOR employees will be excluded from the update. You will see a message indicating that some employees could not be updated.

Contract status

Below are the contract statuses that can appear on your EOR employees' profiles and what they mean:

Contract Status	Description	Flag Color
Draft Created	The employment profile has been created, but the employee has not been invited to remote yet. At this stage, the employer can still edit the employee’s employment contract.	Blue
Reserve Payment Required	The employment profile has been created, but Remote is waiting for a reserve payment before an employer can invite the employee.	Orange
Ready to Invite	The reserve payment has been paid by the employer. An employer is able to invite the employee if the hire date is still valid.	Blue
Onboarding Pending	The employee has been invited to Remote and is in the process of self-enrollment.	Orange
Active	The employment is active. The status is set to active when the employee has completed self-enrollment in Remote and signed their employment contract.	Green
Amendment Pending	Contract amendment is submitted or being reviewed by Remote specialist.	Orange
Offboarding Pending	Offboarding request is submitted or being reviewed by Remote specialist.	Orange
Onboarding Canceled	This indicates that the employment has been archived and no longer in use.	Grey
Offboarding Approved	Offboarding request is confirmed and done.	Grey

Time off integration

Remote is the source of truth for time off balances and policies for EOR employees. However, employees and managers can request and edit time off from either platform, and the requests will sync between both systems. Additionally, the Who's Out calendar will display Remote time off categories.

When the first EOR employee is onboarded, BambooHR will automatically create EOR-specific time off policies and assign them to EOR employees based on their country.

Users cannot "calculate balance as of {Date}" for Remote policies or edit past time off requests directly in BambooHR; these changes must occur in Remote. However, you can record time off in BambooHR, which will sync to Remote as approved requests.

BambooHR Settings > Time Off page showing a new section “EOR Policies.” Each policy has a color-coded icon. Policies that sync with Remote are framed in orange outline and has option to See Details.

In Settings > Time Off, there is a new section named "EOR Policies," which contains all of Remote's policies that BambooHR automatically creates when the first EOR employee is added. You can edit the color, icon, and calendar visibility for each category. However, the name and settings of each policy cannot be edited or deleted.

For more information on time off for EOR employees visit this guide or view FAQ here.

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