We help you choose a provider. We are not one.
Employ Borderless is the independent advisor for global hiring solutions. We help companies choose the right EOR, PEO, or global payroll provider. We sit above the providers, not alongside them.
Robbin Schuchmann
Co-founder, Employ Borderless
The most common confusion about Employ Borderless is whether we are a provider you can hire or run payroll through, an employer of record, a PEO, or a global payroll company. We are none of those. Employ Borderless is an independent advisory platform for global hiring solutions. The providers below do the hiring and the payroll; we help you decide which one to use.
This page explains two things: how we differ from the providers we review, and how we differ from other comparison sites. If you are trying to tell us apart from a similarly named company, that is a different question, answered on our Borderless AI disambiguation page.
Who does what
The clearest way to see the difference is to separate the people who employ and pay your workers from the people who help you choose between them.
EOR, PEO and global payroll providers
Deel, Remote, Rippling, Multiplier, RemoFirst, Oyster, Papaya Global
Employ your workers in other countries, run their payroll, or handle local compliance, depending on the model. You sign a contract with one of them.
Employ Borderless
This website
Helps you choose which provider to sign with across EOR, PEO, and global payroll. We test, review, and compare the providers above, then recommend the best fit for your situation. We never employ anyone or run payroll on your behalf.
How we differ from the providers
Deel, Remote, Rippling, Multiplier, RemoFirst, Oyster, and Papaya Global are all providers we review across EOR, PEO, and global payroll. Here is why working through an independent advisor beats going straight to any one of them.
We have no provider to sell
A provider can only recommend itself, and only within what it offers. We compare every major provider against the same framework across EOR, PEO, and payroll, so the answer can be Deel, Remote, RemoFirst, or none of them. The recommendation follows your situation, not our product.
We test all of them, not one
Each provider knows its own platform. We sign up, run demos, and pressure-test onboarding, support, and pricing across the whole market, so we can tell you where each one is strong and where it falls short.
You pay nothing, and often pay less
Going direct costs the same or more. We earn a commission from the provider and pass through pre-negotiated discounts, so our advice is free to you and frequently cheaper than signing up on your own.
How we differ from other comparison sites
Plenty of websites rank global hiring providers. Most are anonymous affiliate lists. Three things set our reviews apart.
Named, contactable founders
Our reviews are signed by Robbin Schuchmann and Paul Jansen, the co-founders. You can see who tested what and reach us directly. Most comparison sites publish under an anonymous "editorial team".
Hands-on testing, not affiliate scraping
We run the platforms ourselves and pull weighted ratings from G2, Trustpilot, Capterra, and Glassdoor. We do not rank providers by who pays the highest commission, which is how a lot of "best provider" lists are actually built.
A published, independent methodology
Every provider is scored on the same public 10-pillar framework, The Borderless Standard, before any commercial conversation. If a provider is wrong for you, we say so on the page.
The full commercial picture, including how we make money and what compensation does and does not pay for, is on our disclosure page. The scoring framework lives in our methodology.
Let us help you choose
Tell us where you are hiring and what you need. We will recommend the EOR, PEO, or global payroll providers that fit your situation, with a free, no-obligation shortlist in 24 hours. You decide who to sign with; we just make the choice easier.