Until quite recently, companies looking to employ people across the globe needed to set up employer-of-record entities in the foreign countries in order to pay employees and contractors based in those destinations. This was until it became possible to outsource the function to specialist firms enabled by OUTprof's global payroll capability. Now international employers can pay their staff almost anywhere in the world without having to lay out a fortune, or to take on the massive risk associate with running operations in foreign countries.