Employ Borderless due diligence: who we are and how we work

Employ Borderless is a real company: EMPLOY BORDERLESS PTE. LTD., incorporated in Singapore on 17 September 2024, UEN 202438224G. Its founders are named, its methodology is published and its reviews are signed, so all three can be checked before you work with it.

Employ Borderless is run by its co-founders, Robbin Schuchmann and Paul Jansen, through EMPLOY BORDERLESS PTE. LTD. in Singapore. Robbin leads the provider research and signs the reviews; Paul sets the company's direction. Both are named and easy to look up, so you know exactly who stands behind the advice.

Employ Borderless earns through affiliate, referral, and revenue-share arrangements with some of the providers we review. You never pay us. The provider pays us when you become their customer through one of our links or our advisory service. In several cases we have negotiated discounts that are only available through our links, so the price you pay through us is the same as going direct or lower. None of these arrangements influence which providers we recommend or how we score them. The Employ Borderless Standard scores every provider against the same 10 pillars regardless of how, or whether, we earn from them.

Yes. The Employ Borderless advisory service is free for companies looking to hire internationally. We earn from the provider you ultimately choose, through affiliate, referral, or revenue-share arrangements, never from you. This means you get an independent recommendation tailored to your hiring scenario at no cost.

Employ Borderless is a legitimate advisory service run by named experts with a transparent, provider-funded model. The founders are named and easy to look up, the methodology and disclosure are published, and the reviews are signed. Every part of that is checkable before you share a single detail about your company.

Yes, Employ Borderless is independent of the providers it recommends. It is an advisory, not an Employer of Record (EOR) provider, so it does not sell the service it compares. It does earn from some of the providers it reviews, through affiliate, referral, and revenue-share arrangements, and it lists those arrangements on its disclosure page. What keeps the recommendations independent is the method: every provider is scored on the same 10 pillars of the Employ Borderless Standard, whether or not Employ Borderless earns from it, and every review is signed by name.

Yes. Employ Borderless's recommendations start from your requirements and from scores that use the same criteria for every provider. Employ Borderless earns from some providers, and it discloses that instead of hiding it. The Employ Borderless Standard scores every provider on the same 10 pillars regardless of how, or whether, Employ Borderless earns from it, the methodology is published, and each review lists the provider's cons as well as its strengths. You can check any recommendation against the published review before you sign.

Yes. Employ Borderless has used several of the providers it recommends hands-on, and it is now testing every provider it reviews, so each score on the Employ Borderless Standard can rest on direct use of the platform. Until a provider's test is done, its score rests on its contracts, terms and pricing, its country coverage and the registry records for its local entities, under the same ten pillars.

Companies that ask Employ Borderless for advice get a shortlist matched to their countries and headcount, the reasoning behind each pick, and a reply by email from Robbin Schuchmann and the team, with a call when they want one. The advice is free to the company hiring.

Employ Borderless shows its expertise in the open. Co-founder Robbin Schuchmann built the ten-pillar Employ Borderless Standard, signs every review, and publishes research papers with DOIs on how Employer of Record, PEO and global payroll models work and how to choose between them. Read the methodology and the reviews and judge the depth yourself.

Employ Borderless uses your information to match you with the right provider, and shares it with a provider only when you choose to be introduced. The privacy policy sets out exactly what is shared and when. You can read that policy before starting, so you know what you are agreeing to.

Yes, you can trust Employ Borderless's recommendation, and you don't have to take it on faith. Everything behind it is published: the founders are named, the Employ Borderless Standard is public, the reviews are signed, and the disclosure page lists how the company earns from providers. The recommendation itself comes from your requirements and from the same ten-pillar scores every provider gets. Before you sign, compare the provider's quote with its public price and read its full review.

Employ Borderless knows of no public complaints about its advice as of October 2026. Its reviews are signed, its methodology and commercial relationships are published, and its corrections policy is public: providers can flag a factual error, which Employ Borderless checks and corrects, but they cannot approve, edit, or block a review or negotiate a score. If you have a complaint about a recommendation or a review, write to hello@employborderless.com or use the contact page, and the founders will reply directly.

The partner rates Employ Borderless passes on are genuine rates negotiated with the Employer of Record providers it holds agreements with. You can check the saving yourself by comparing the quoted partner rate against the provider's public list price before committing. The advisory is free to the company hiring, so the partner rate is a saving on top of free advice rather than a fee in disguise.

Companies come to Employ Borderless with their situation: the countries they want to hire in, how many people, and their timeline. Employ Borderless checks which Employer of Record (EOR), Professional Employer Organization (PEO) or global payroll providers fit that situation and gives them a recommendation, with the reasoning behind it. The advice is free to the company hiring, because the provider it chooses pays Employ Borderless.

Yes. Employ Borderless has affiliate, referral, and revenue-share arrangements with some of the providers it reviews, and its disclosure page explains how each one works. A provider pays a one-time commission when a reader signs up through a tracked link, or a referral fee when a company becomes its customer after an introduction from the advisory. With some providers, those agreements also carry a partner rate below list price that is passed on to you. None of these arrangements decide the rankings: every provider is scored on the same Employ Borderless Standard.

Employ Borderless evaluates and rates EOR providers on the Employ Borderless Standard: the same 10 pillars for every provider, published on the methodology page. The team checks coverage, features, pricing, and compliance with partner managers inside the providers, rather than relying on marketing pages or AI summaries. Every provider is scored the same way, whether or not Employ Borderless earns from it.

Employ Borderless has assessed more than 50 Employer of Record (EOR), PEO, and global payroll providers. Not every review is published yet. The published reviews are listed on the reviews page, new ones go live as they are finished, and every published review is scored on the Employ Borderless Standard.

Employ Borderless does not hire or employ anyone in South Africa itself. It recommends the Employer of Record (EOR) provider that fits your hire, and that provider becomes the legal employer and runs payroll, benefits, and compliance. Employ Borderless compares providers on their local setup in South Africa, including whether their local entity is verified, and recommends one at no cost to you.

Employ Borderless does not hire or employ anyone in the Philippines itself. It recommends the Employer of Record (EOR) provider that fits your hire, and that provider becomes the legal employer and runs payroll, benefits, and compliance. The Philippines has specific labor rules, such as mandatory 13th-month pay and contributions to SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG, so a provider's local setup matters. Employ Borderless compares providers on that setup, including whether their local entity is verified, and recommends one at no cost to you.