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The Death Global Payr Model For more than two decades, the global payroll industry has relied on a relatively straightforward model to solve an extraordinarily complex problem. Multinational organizations needed to pay employees across dozens of countries, each with different tax systems, labor laws, social security requirements, reporting obligations, banking practices, and payroll regulations.
Author: Rick Hammell Rick Hammell, SPHR, is a global workforce entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in Global HR operations, payroll, and compliance. He is the Founder and CEO of Globalli, a unified Global HR, Payroll, and Payments platform transforming how companies manage and pay global teams. Rick previously founded Atlas in 2015, scaling it from a startup into the first direct Employer of Record platform supporting clients in over 160 countries. He led the company through significant growth, including raising $20 million in 2020 and $200 million in 2022, before successfully exiting the business in early 2025. He was recognized with the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Midwest Award 2021 for his leadership and impact on the global HR technology industry. Today, Rick is focused on transforming the global expansion lifecycle from contractor payments to Employer of Record services, while building the next generation of global payroll technology solutions and workforce infrastructure through Globalli.
B uilding payroll technology and expensive and difficult, so the industry developed an alternative: the global payroll aggregator. A global provider could create a network of local payroll companies, place a centralized technology and service layer over that network, operational capabilities in every country was
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