Hiring, managing and retaining employees is hard in your company’s home country. It gets even more challenging because you have to navigate a tangled web of complex labour laws and employment regulations. Deviating from the regulations can lead to hefty fines, lawsuits, and even a complete operational ban. That is when a professional employer organisation (PEO) can be your perfect solution.
In this article, you will learn how a PEO as your strategic business partner or co-employer, can be a game-changer. Keep reading to learn about Professional Employer Organisation benefits:
The Role of Strategic PEO Services for Global Businesses
In today’s interconnected world, international expansion has become easier than ever, not only for large companies but also for SMEs (small and midsize enterprises). However, the opportunities come with challenges!
When it comes to international expansion, global workforce management is the biggest challenge. From hiring the best talent to managing local payroll and ensuring compliance with labour law, you have to take care of everything to hire, pay and manage talent across international borders compliantly.
Businesses, particularly SMEs, may lack the resources and expertise for managing international employees. Hiring PEOs as strategic partners simplifies the process. They take the burden off your shoulders as these professionals take care of all necessities in compliantly engaging and managing international employees.
So, as soon as you plan global business expansion in the UAE, it is time to hire an international PEO to help you at each step.
In this article, you will learn the indispensable role of PEO services for global businesses. So, keep reading to learn how PEO services in Dubai can make a huge difference in your company’s international journey and help expand globally easily.
Benefits of PEOs for Global Workforce Management
A PEO (Professional Employment Organization) is a full-service human resources (HR) solution for handling all employee administrative things for your global workforce. This allows you to focus on your business growth without worrying about legalities and compliance overseas. You have experts (PEOs) at your disposal to ensure compliance with local in-country laws.
Common Services of a Regional PEO Partner
PEOs assist businesses with everything they need to manage global talent without opening a legal entity in the UAE and complying with compliance risks with local regulations. This allows you to focus on managing your international team’s day-to-day operations.
Let us quickly explore the most common tasks a strategic PEO team does for client companies:
Drafting and submitting employment contracts: PEO companies prepare and distribute MoHRE-compliant employment contracts, ensuring they have complete, up-to-date employment information. They also submit the contract to MoHRE for approval.
Background checks: PEOs handle legal background checks and e-verify the results without bias, ensuring you hire the great hire the first time. They run checks for employment history, educational background, criminal record, driving record, personal references, etc., based on your industry and the positions. Employees’ background checks are important to ensure workplace safety, maximise productivity, and avoid your company’s exposure to legal claims.
Employees onboarding: International HR outsourcing to PEOs supports businesses by streamlining onboarding and providing ongoing training. They collect necessary details about new hires, prepare and distribute contracts for e-signature, and get employees onboard quickly.
Administrating employee benefits: PEOs provide benefits administration support to their client companies. They help in providing competitive benefits (statutory and common) under UAE labour law, such as leave entitlements, overtime, minimum wage, health insurance, etc.
Tracking and managing timesheets: PEOs help streamline timesheet processing and reconciliation; they track time and attendance and review and approve hours worked – all without manual data entry while ensuring compliance.
Payroll management: Processing local payrolls is meticulous; you must ensure Wages Protection System (WPS) compliance. The risk of error and delayed or unfair pay might lead to severe consequences. PEOs assist companies in paying their employees in the UAE in UAE dirhams without worrying about delayed processing or exchange rates.
Regulatory compliance and risk management: PEOs provide guidance and assistance with their compliance efforts as they navigate unfamiliar labour laws and employment regulations. By managing employee contracts, payrolls, and benefits according to UAE labour laws, Connect Resources minimises risks and ensures that your business remains compliant in all regions in the country in which you operate.
Data protection: As your strategic partner, PEOs also help protecting your company’s sensitive data they are allowed to access. They ensure secure technology platforms to manage payroll, benefits, and compliance. They also ensure that client companies comply with the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) and offer tailored disaster recovery and data backup support.
Employees offboarding: A regional PEO provides a streamlined offboarding procedure, ensuring compliance with local termination policies, mitigating risks, and protecting potential headaches for your company.
As you can see, a PEO offers companies comprehensive employee administration and HR-related services, from onboarding to offboarding and everything in between. Please note that a PEO is not a replacement for your in-house HR department. Instead, they support your in-house team and take the burden off their shoulders with global workforce management.
Why Offload Tasks to a PEO Partnership [Benefit from PEOs for Business Growth]
Here is how successful PEO partnerships can make a difference to your international expansion goals (benefits of PEO in global expansion):
Achieve greater precision with your strategic partner
Global HR management can be tricky and error-prone because of complex local laws and regulations. It is a Herculean task to identify the error, cause, and fix it.
However, hiring a PEO as your strategic partner can end chaotic global workforce management and payroll processing. They avoid and eliminate errors and help achieve greater precision in everything, including calculating paid time off, working hours, deductions, employee benefits, etc.
Improved business productivity
As mentioned earlier, global workforce management is a time-intensive task. In addition, ensuring HR compliance in the global workforce is tricky because the UAE’s labour laws and employement regulations keep changing frequently. Missing out on any update can result in severe, expensive penalties. So, managing global teams yourself will be a setback for your company as you will spend more time here, distracting you from core business activities.
On the other hand, PEOs assist businesses in saving time, money, and sanity involved in global HR management. So you can invest in primary business activities like products or services and customer support and generate more prospects and revenue.
Easy and faster market entry
When you choose a PEO, they act as your legal co-employer in the UAE. So, you do not need to set up a legal entity in the country, which may be time-consuming.
A PEO allows you to quickly build an amazing global team that scales with your lowering or growing needs. In addition, you can recruit top talent across the Emirates at competitive benefit packages without worrying about logistics.
Effective risk management with strategic initiatives
The UAE is known for strict labour laws, and businesses unfamiliar with these regulations often end up risking non-compliance. In the end, they have to go through legal issues, hefty fines, reputational damage, lawsuits, and/or even operational bans.
As your reliable PEO partner, Connect Resources handles compliance issues and ensures risk mitigation. We minimise risks and ensure 100% compliance in all regions in which your business operates.
Benefit from technology integration
Technology is vital for effective workforce management – local or global. PEOs at Connect Resources utilise an integrated human resources information system (HRIS). This platform centralises global workforce information and allows employees to manage their data via a self-service portal.
In addition, you get a real-time view of your international workforce through unified reporting and actionable insights within the system. As a result, PEOs can bring process efficiency and consistency, ensuring better productivity, time savings, and other strategic benefits.
Why Choose Connect Resources for Successful PEO Partnerships in Dubai, UAE
With in-depth experience and expertise in PEO services across the UAE, Connect Resources helps you navigate the complexities of global workforce management easily, thanks to its strong local presence.
We offer comprehensive PEO support with a focus on compliance, flexibility, scalability, and efficiency of your business. Let Connect Resources manage your global teams in the UAE so you can focus on what matters – growing your business across the Middle East. Please note that we also provide Public Relations Officer (PRO) services. So, if you are planning to outsource your PRO tasks, you can confidently rely on us. We will take care of all your needs and processes related to government authorities, for instance, handling governmental documents and paperwork attestation, labour cards, trade licensing, etc.
Get in touch with Connect Resources to know how our PEO services can help.
