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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.
F or decades, the payroll industry has been on a journey toward automation. We automated calculations, tax tables, bank files, payslips, general ledger outputs, integrations, reporting, and countless administrative workflows. More recently, organizations have invested heavily in APIs, robotic process automation,
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