Global Employment
Contractor Management
How Humanitec uses Lano to scale across 4 time zones
With Lano’s Global Employment platform, Humanitec met their growth goals without compliance overheads.
7
unterschiedliche Payroll-Datenformate standardisiert
80%
weniger Zeitaufwand für die Gehaltsabrechnung
20
Payroll-Daten für alle Niederlassungen in einer Plattform
Christoph RichterBecause Lano has such a great network of partners, you can do things that other solutions cannot. You offer more flexibility around specific cases that are not typical and Lano can get it done.
COO and Co-Founder
About Humanitec
Headquartered in Berlin, Humanitec’s Platform Orchestrator is the engine at the heart of a dynamic IDP. It lets platform teams, from growing startups to enterprises, remove bottlenecks by letting them build golden paths for developers. The company has grown from 20 employees to around 60 in less than a year.
From the beginning, Humanitec championed remote work and the flexibility that comes along with it. The team is distributed across several countries and time zones. In building a remote-first company, Humanitec had to ensure that they were compliant with regulations while having the flexibility to find the employees that were the best fit. They needed to find a partner that could help them navigate the global employment landscape and scale without having to take the complexities of compliance into their own hands.
Challenge
Expanding globally without expensive overhead
Humanitec began with a single entity in Germany. When hiring for new positions, they began to receive high quality applications from candidates outside of Germany. The dilemma became whether to reject them based on location alone or to find a way to hire them compliantly.
Hiring globally quickly becomes complex when legislation and standards for hiring each country must be considered. The team hoped to avoid opening entities too quickly in unproven markets. Thus, Humanitec began evaluating different approaches and chose to take the approach of hiring freelancers on a project basis. This approach ensured that they were able to move quickly and flexibly while they were building their team. The flexibility enabled them to validate that building a remote first company was right for their company at scale.
Once the idea of working with a fully remote and distributed was validated, the team wanted to transition some of their freelancers to full time employees, without opening an entity. It was clear that Humanitec aimed to quickly and compliantly build a global team. Since they had an existing successful relationship with Lano via some of their contractors, Humanitec knew that Lano was the right partner to continue to grow their business.
Solution
Managing employment, expenses, and payroll in a single solution
Lano provides Humanitec with an all-in-one tool to manage the various elements of hiring a global team. The processes within Lano are intuitive and seamless and having a single place to streamline processes saves time.
The quote creation flow is very straightforward and Lano is upfront with how much the entire process will cost. The transparency from the beginning helped build trust with Lano; it was clear that they would have a knowledgeable partner when it comes to navigating the complex landscape of hiring globally, remotely.
With the help of Lano, the Humanitec team hired two candidates with the unique specifications that worked well for both parties. By working with local in-country partners, Lano is able to provide an excellent user experience to the clients. These in-country partners are experts in hiring in that country and are able to offer Lano more flexibility to better meet the needs of their clients. Lano adapted to their unique situations and worked to ensure Humanitec’s needs were met in a timely manner and compliantly.
Lano’s platform experience team helped ensure that the onboarding process was simple. Lano offered personalized support for any questions that arose as Humanitec transitioned to the operational side of managing a global team. Simple invoicing flows, the correct reminders, and easy approval processes were key. Expense management for various employees was a breeze. Additional benefits, such as co-working budgets, were easy to add to employee contracts to provide a similar experience to each employee no matter where they are based. With Lano, all of these functionalities were straightforward which helped the team stay organized and provide peace of mind that these processes were handled compliantly.
Ergebnisse
Alle globalen Payroll-Daten in einer zentralen Plattform
Durch die Zusammenführung aller lokalen Payroll-Anbieter auf der Lano-Plattform konnte unser Kunde die Verwaltung seiner globalen Lohn- und Gehaltsabrechnung deutlich vereinfachen. Mit den Reporting-Funktionen von Lano ist das Management am Unternehmenshauptsitz nun in der Lage, die Lohn- und Gehaltsdaten aller internationalen Einheiten in einem standardisierten Format über eine zentrale Plattform abzurufen. Dies unterstützt bei wichtigen Geschäftsentscheidungen.
Ergebnisse
Alle globalen Payroll-Daten in einer zentralen Plattform
Durch die Zusammenführung aller lokalen Payroll-Anbieter auf der Lano-Plattform konnte unser Kunde die Verwaltung seiner globalen Lohn- und Gehaltsabrechnung deutlich vereinfachen. Mit den Reporting-Funktionen von Lano ist das Management am Unternehmenshauptsitz nun in der Lage, die Lohn- und Gehaltsdaten aller internationalen Einheiten in einem standardisierten Format über eine zentrale Plattform abzurufen. Dies unterstützt bei wichtigen Geschäftsentscheidungen.
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