CoreHR: Outsourced HR Services from a Global Leader

Key takeaways

• CoreHR (formerly HR360) is a solution from Safeguard Global that offers global HR support including onboarding and offboarding, contract management, benefits administration, and expert consultation to meet your country-specific needs.
• CoreHR makes it easier to stay compliant with employment laws and regulations around the world, and its advisory services allow regular access to global HR experts for questions or advice.
• Along with other Safeguard Global offerings, CoreHR creates an operational consistency across countries, helping teams standardize their day-to-day workflows for onboarding, benefits administration, and employee support.
• CoreHR is often a good fit for midsized organizations, businesses that want to keep internal business-support teams lean, and companies that need more expertise specific to the local areas their current and future international employees will be working in.

What is CoreHR?

Although Safeguard Global is often better known for pioneering the global employer of record (EOR), our CoreHR solution is a vital service for many of our customers that are managing a global workforce. Formerly called HR360, CoreHR provides country-specific employment contracts, performs onboarding tasks, procures and administers benefits, and meets other HR needs. Here’s a closer look at CoreHR and how it fits into our wider HR & Benefits solution.

How it works

Our CoreHR service relieves your internal HR teams from the administrative load of managing employees in multiple countries post-hire, including:

• Contracts and onboarding – Providing country-specific contracts and offer letters; background checks and medical screenings; and employee onboarding
• Offboarding – Employee offboarding services including terminations and severance pay guidance as required by local law
• HR administration – Processing of employee changes like promotions and internal transfers
• Benefits administration – Acquisition, setup, and administration of local benefits in 67 countries
• Global advisory services – Access to local HR experts for up to two hours each month for quick answers and practical guidance

Why organizations value CoreHR

Your internal HR teams can quickly become overburdened when employees reside in multiple countries. They have to understand country-specific regulations around employment terms, onboarding documentation, and benefits administration. Templates that were once standard must be replaced with local variants. International employees can grow frustrated with offshore HR representatives’ lack of knowledge about their region. And perhaps worst of all, when “you don’t know what you don’t know,” you can accidentally violate laws, leading to high financial penalties and a damaged reputation.

CoreHR is designed with compliance in mind. No matter which of our 67 supported countries you want to hire in, we have an HR expert to provide the legally required contract, help your new hire complete necessary onboarding tasks, and administer the proper benefits. This not only ensures legal compliance, but simplifies and standardizes processes across countries to improve operational consistency. In addition to ensuring HR teams and local employees are supported, CoreHR features an HR advisory service that helps teams understand local nuances and navigate questions that are specific to their business.

How CoreHR complements our other offerings

A hallmark of Safeguard Global that separates us from other providers is how all our global offerings work together. As part of our HR & Benefits solution, CoreHR is often used alongside Entity Setup, which helps companies expand into new countries, or our Global Pay solution, which centralizes international payroll operations. This allows you to have one single vendor you can rely on to meet most (or all) of your HR needs. This makes coordination, planning, and budgeting easier, so when your organization needs to expand or contract, processes are clearer and roadmaps are already in place.

Is CoreHR right for you?

If you’re trying to reduce administrative burden, overhead costs, and process-related chaos for an international workforce, CoreHR might be the solution you’re looking for. It’s particularly good for medium-sized businesses of 100 to 2,000 employees that have grown their global workforce, but don’t necessarily have the local HR support and expertise they need. However, we support a wide variety of companies and non-profit organizations and can create bespoke solutions to meet your needs.

Companies with a remit to maintain lean business-support teams particularly gravitate to CoreHR for its ability to provide legally compliant services in a cost-effective way that creates consistency. The fact that the service also allows you to consult with experts — who are available when you need them — for guidance or questions about international workforce issues makes CoreHR indispensable for many of our global customers. In fact, many of our customers add it to their existing solutions for just this reason.

Interested in learning more about CoreHR? Contact us to speak to a knowledgeable rep about how Safeguard Global can help your business manage its global workforce.